Winter In America (2006)

Winter in America is a stopmotion animation video that recreates the events leading up to the robbing and murder of Hank Willis Thomass cousin Songha in February 2000 outside a club in Philadelphia Basing the narrative on eyewitness accounts the artists use GI Joe action figures similar to those they played with during childhood to tell the story The video examines a culture in which young boys are encouraged to act out such violent scenarios before they can even read More generally it is critical of Americas unquenchable thirst for material goods