Insurgent Smokescreen is an installation depicting first-hand accounts of Vietnam War era antiwar activists from Southern California. From Ocean Beach to Del Mar and Oceanside, CA, moments of state-sanctioned repression against antiwar dissent are recounted and re-enacted through multi-modal approaches to documentary. Performed and filmed at their sites of original occurrence, we visit a beachfront railroad crossing, an outdoor amphitheater, a busy intersection, and an activist house turned-AirBnb rental. Correspondingly, Apodaca’s chalk pastel drawings attempt to fill the void in our collective memory of encountered struggles and hard-won victories in times of immense global conflict.