Karina Aguilera Skvirsky

Atta Boy Jim, 2008
Video, 3 minutes 18 seconds, NTSC
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AttaBoy Jim is a single channel video that recounts the story of Matthew Williams’s lynching in Salisbury, MD, in 1931. Filmed in silhouette, the actors read the sometimes-contradictory historical newspaper accounts of the event. Who is telling the truth? And who’s truth? AttaBoy Jim reveals both the horror of lynching and the use of language as a tool of suppression.

Projects > North·East·South: Atta Boy Jim

All images © Karina Aguilera Skvirsky 2008