Louis Hock (born 1948) is an American artist and independent filmmaker who works in film, video, installation and interventions in public space.

[3] Born in 1948 in Los Angeles, California, Louis Hock has spent most of his life within a fifty-mile radius of the border between the United States and Mexico.

[12]" As an extension of Hock's decade of experimental film practice,[9] the work centers Southern California as an imaginary landscape: a confection of public relations and glossy photographs.

Made for exhibition in public spaces, rather than theaters, the work premiered on Los Angeles streets using a semi tractor trailer and large mobile home as screen surfaces.

[4] As part of the “Pacific Standard Time” event in 2011, a trailer of the cinemural was fabricated for screening inside the Getty Center galleries then traveled to the Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin.

[15] In an essay by former Afterimage (magazine) editor Grant Kester, the author states "In the "Arte Reembolso/Art Rebate" project (1993) they distributed signed 10 dollar bills to undocumented workers as a symbolic recognition of their contribution to the Southern California economy.

The work was developed to directly challenge conservative arguments that migrant workers constitute a negative drain on the state's resources.