The Exiles

LAST night we watched Kent Mackenzie's short student film, "Bunker Hill -- 1956," a meditation on the notion of gentrification and erasure as we've been discussing in class.

The video below is the trailer from the longer film that grew out of it, The Exiles, a documentary that follows a group of young Native American men and women through the streets of Bunker Hill right around the moment of the neighborhood's twilight.

It's definitely worth checking out for more of that vanished L.A. vibe -- and the DVD is even available at LMU's library.

-- L.G.