[1] Aridjis Fuentes left Mexico City when she was 18 to study Anthropology and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, where she wrote her thesis on the concepts of the self and other in the works of Borges, Cortázar, Baudelaire and Lacan.
Justin Chang at Variety wrote that "Eva Aridjis invests her first fiction feature with rewarding depths of humor and feeling" and "Both thesps succeed in establishing the kind of effortless rapport that eludes their characters.
[3] Aridjis' second feature documentary, about a Mexican religious cult, entitled La Santa Muerte (Saint Death), is narrated by Gael García Bernal.
Aridjis' second narrative feature, Los Ojos Azules (The Blue Eyes), was shot entirely on location in Chiapas, Mexico and tells the story of a young American couple (played by Allison Case and Zachary Booth) who travel there and have an encounter with a shape-shifting witch (played by Ofelia Medina).
Since 2019, Aridjis Fuentes has been working on a documentary about Diane Luckey, the singer-songwriter also known as Q Lazzarus who had a brief moment of fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s before mysteriously disappearing for 30 years.
[citation needed] Eva Aridjis wrote the introduction to Angus Fraser's 2015 book of photographs titled Santa Muerte.
Tony Award winner Frank Wood describes Aridjis as "one of those extremely intelligent but-not-dependent-on-irony people.