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THE EXILES

Kent McKenzie | 72 min | United States | 1961

The result of an extended collaboration between MacKenzie and his subjects, young Native Americans living in the crumbling slums of Bunker Hill, The Exiles seems to unfold over the course of one bibulous night, by turns melancholy, angry, and ecstatic, with high-contrast black and white photography showing LA at its most beautiful—and its most cold.


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