Saturday, August 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
The Broad, Los Angeles
Los Angeles is home to the largest and most vibrant community of Native people in the United States. To honor the history of Bunker Hill and its importance as a landing place for Native peoples who left their reservations to start a new life in Los Angeles, The Broad is presenting a special screening of** *****The Exiles***** **(1961). The film chronicles a night in the lives of young Native Americans living in the Bunker Hill district, now a bustling artistic corridor on the edge of downtown Los Angeles and home to The Broad, MOCA, The Music Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and The Colburn School. Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition, [***Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me***](https://www.thebroad.org/art/special-exhibitions/jeffrey-gibson-space-which-place-me), the film is based on interviews with the participants and follows them as they flirt, drink, party, fight, and dance. Thanks to UCLA Film Television Archive’s magnificent restoration and Milestone’s release, this hidden gem finally captured the heart of the film world after rarely being seen for fifty years.* **The Exiles*** is gritty, realistic, beautifully photographed, and energized by a rock-and-roll score from Norman Knowles and The Revels. There will be a post-screening conversation with **Edgar García**, Interim General Manager for El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument with over twenty-five years’ experience in cultural policy, arts administration, historic preservation, and urban planning and **Adam Piron** (Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and Mohawk), filmmaker, writer, and curator who is also Director of Sundance Institute's Indigenous Program and a co-founder of COUSIN: a film collective dedicated to supporting Indigenous artists experimenting with, and pushing the boundaries, of the moving image. Image Credit: *The Exiles* (1961, 72min, dir. Kent Mackenzie). Film licensed by Kino Lorber.