Heroes of War: film still from interview with Ronald A. Ritter

"Heroes of War," by Gonzalo Lebrija, is a video installation projected in the auditorium of the San Diego Veterans Museum in Balboa Park. Over a year before, Lebrija began working with veterans at the Veterans Home of California in Chula Vista. Gonzalo's goal was to intervene in the museum space, creating a curatorial discourse that approximates a creative group experience. Gonzalo participated in a number of reunions of former prisoners of war, or POWs. These experiences led him to explore the notion of military paraphernalia and veterans' narratives. Gonzalo filmed a number of individuals while they discussed the public recognition accorded to them and their actions as servicemen in times of war. --inSite_05

• 2005

• Lebrija, Gonzalo, 1972-

• InSite_05

• Ragasol, Tania (Mexican art historian and curator)

This film still was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 188, DVD 01)

Veterans Museum, Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.)

Film still

• InSite_05

• Mexican-American border region

• Installations (visual works)
• Memorials

• Face
• Interviews
• Military museums
• Portraits
• Prisoners of war
• Soldiers
• Veterans
• Video art

• image

Shared Shelf: 18431745

Online finding aid

• inSite Archive

Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art

Sculpture and Installations

[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

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