The Philosophical Research Society is proud to present one of the great landmarks in American independent cinema, Kent McKenzie’s THE EXILES (1961). Striking and vital, McKenzie’s incredible film is important not only in its place in the burgeoning US indie movement of the late 50s/early 60s, but as an indispensable document of Los Angeles’ now vanished Bunker Hill district and the neighborhood, culture, and community – perhaps the last concentrated Native American community in metropolitan LA – that was entirely wiped out by callous governmentally driven redevelopment.