BEHIND THE FURROW: Film Screening and discussion with Jonathan Om

Israel’s frontier agriculture is inextricable from colonial violence, especially in the region surrounding the Gaza Strip, and Thai migrant workers labouring on farms in the region are cruelly exposed to the repercussions. Filmmaker Jonathan Om has been collaborating with Thai migrants in the border region on a cinematic project sketching the deep connections between agriculture and militarism since 2021, continuing through the Hamas attack of October 2023 and the genocidal war on Gaza which has followed. 

Join us for a preview screening of this work in progress, The Snake Charmer (Germany, 2026), and a discussion between the filmmaker and anthropologist Matan Kaminer (CLaSP, QMUL), author of Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture (Stanford, 2024).

Jonathan Om is an artist and filmmaker who explores various relations to power through projects that transpire at the intersection of creativity and emergency. Om has participated in exhibitions and screenings at various art spaces and film festivals and was an artist in residence in Greenland, Denmark, Austria, Germany and Israel/Palestine.