Other Cinema presents
Kent MacKenzie's The Exiles
No-Thanks-Giving
- When
- Sat Dec 1, 2012
- Where
- Artists' for Television Access (ATA)
- Time
- 8:30pm
- Cost
- $6
- Tags
- Movies, Film Screenings, Other Film
Description
On Saturday, December 1st, ATA Gallery's OTHER CINEMA, in the last of our Psycho-Geography trilogy, unspools a recently re-discovered 16mm print of the little-seen Native American neo-realist treasure, The Exiles.While he was a film student at USC in the mid-50s, director Kent MacKenzie chanced upon Bunker Hill, the low-rent neighborhood on the west edge of downtown Los Angeles, when it was first threatened with demolition. He became fascinated with a subculture of Arizona Indians living there, eventually organizing a loose group of non-professionals to more or less play themselves in a compelling story of a long Friday night. Full of loneliness, yearning and little flashes of happiness, this semi-improvised group-portrait is a wrenching chronicle of cultural dislocation and a remarkable record of a city that has vanished.
Introduction by archivist Steve Polta, relating the rich background of the production and restoration of this semi-documentary feature.
More Info
- Link
- http://www.othercinema.com/
- Call
- (415) 648-0654
- Contact Form (account required)
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