Your Nigger Talking, 1999, video, 29 min

Amit Goren's video focuses on the complex and contradictory attitudes toward immigrants who live and work in Israel. It is estimated that there are 200,000 foreign workers in Israel, half of them illegal, making up 8 to 12% of the work force in the country. World-wide experience indicates that the greatest dangers accompanying the phenomenon of foreign workers lie in the undermining of the system of work relations and social stratification, as well as the development of xenophobia, the devaluation in the status of human and social dignity, and in the development of bitterness, violence and crime among the second generation. There are approximately 1,000 children under the age of 8 who were born in Israel to illegal foreign workers. Only a limited number of these children are registered in the public educational system. Amit Goren's video project shows how in response to the growing demand for kindergarten and primary school education within the community, Nana Opoku Agyemang, an illegal worker from Ghana, has opened a private school for children of foreign workers in the living room and bedroom of his apartment.