Evan Apodaca
Monumental Interventions
Monumental Interventions uses facial motion capture combined with reenactment, investigatory methods of research and observation to explore post-9/11 hyper-militarism and activism in San Diego, CA.
Contributor Work
Monumental Interventions, 2023. San Diego International Airport installation. Photo courtesy of Evan Apodaca.
Monumental Interventions, 2023. Video Trailer.
Contributor Profile
Evan Apodaca is a third generation Chicano digital media artist best known for Que Lejos Estoy, a short animated documentary film about his Mexican-American family which streamed nationally on PBS in 2016. Apodaca’s work in experimental non-fiction and animation explores culture, identity and political activism in the US-Mexico borderlands. His video work has shown at the the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the New Americans Museum, Best Practice Gallery, the Chicano International Film Festival (LA), the Tijuana Film & Food Festival and the San Diego Latino Film Festival. He was a 2019 San Diego Foundation Creative Catalyst fellow and was a recipient of the National Association of Latino Arts & Culture’s Border Narrative Change Grant in 2021.