The Exiles

As an early example of collaborative filmmaking, Kent Mackenzie’s piercing snapshot of the life of three inhabitants of Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, is rooted in years of collaboration and the life experience of a group of young adults from the local Native American community. The conversations with the young Native Americans didn’t just enter the scripts but were also incorporated one-to-one into the soundtrack of the film, where they make the moods, thoughts and feelings of the protagonists even more tangible as a form of documentary stream of consciousness. (mg)