A third-generation Chicano digital media artist, Apodaca is known for his experimental non-fiction and animation films that explore topics revolving around the US-Mexico border region, culture, and identity. His pieces combine investigative journalism and performance methods such as facial motion capture and reenactment as a means to collect oral histories that bring to life monuments and the role of the military as part of the fabric of San Diego’s development and growth as an industrial city. Apodaca’s films reinforce a pandemic-era message and the importance of re-examination. It demonstrates how a pause can provide an opportunity to listen and learn more about something we’ve accepted as just so.

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