One of his works, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (2005), borrows the title of Milan Kundera's famous book to animate the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. The source material for Lincoln and Kennedy is, respectively, a segment from D.W. Griffith's film Birth of a Nation (1915) and the Zapruder 8mm film of the Kennedy assassination. The reanimation of these horrific, yet familiar, historic events gives the work its emotional charge. Ezawa forces us to acknowledge the historic and cultural distance between us and the depicted figures that feature so prominently in America's public memory. A similar effect is achieved in his 2002 work Simpson Verdict, where Ezawa animates the delivery of O.J. Simpson's verdict using the courtroom footage as source material while keeping the original audio from the footage in place. Both of these works' stylistic artificiality underscore the manufacturing of the historical spectacle and paradoxically preserve the power of the original events. Ezawa's ability to wring genuine emotion from the artificial makes clear his allegiance with previous Pop masters like Warhol and Lichtenstein.