BY KELLY MYERS
Los Alamos

Los Alamos and surrounding community members are invited to a free screening of “Unmaking Of,” a documentary film that takes viewers behind the camera into the brutal reality of making journalism and art under siege, next Tuesday, April 21, at 7 PM at SALA.

The film follows filmmakers working inside Gaza during an active genocide, documenting not just what they see, but what it costs to see it, to record it, and to share it with a world that has largely been shielded from the full weight of what is happening. “Unmaking Of” is less a conventional documentary and more an act of witness, an unflinching look at what it means to bear testimony when testimony itself is under attack.

The screening is part of the Free Palestine Series, a locally organized film series bringing Palestinian stories and perspectives to Los Alamos on a regular basis.

Why does this matter here, in northern New Mexico, so far from Gaza?

Because what is happening in Gaza does not exist in a vacuum. The expansion of genocide and land theft into Lebanon, the ongoing imperial attacks on Iran, and the broader arc of U.S.-backed military operations across the Middle East are all expressions of the same logic: that certain lives are expendable in the service of maintaining global power and economic control by the billionaire Epstein Class. That logic has costs that reach far beyond the region. Military spending in the hundreds of billions shapes what is and is not funded domestically. It shapes the price of oil, the price of food, the availability of housing, and the gutting of health care. When we ask why things feel so hard here at home, part of the answer is in the choices being made abroad, and in our names.

“Unmaking Of” does not ask you to look away. It asks you to look clearly, and to understand what you are seeing.

The event is free and open to the public. Donations will be collected for the Sameer Project, a grassroots Palestinian humanitarian aid organization based in and run by people in Gaza, delivering direct relief to people on the ground.