Trail of the Spider

Trail of the Spider transposes Western genre motifs and the suppressed racial history of the American west (where one in three cowboys were black or Mexican) onto the transforming landscape of East London. Questioning and re-imagining the Western’s portrayal of the “Vanishing Frontier” , the film extends the metaphor to the material and psychological conditions of a present day city increasingly dominated by volatile financial speculations and private interests.

Country:

United Kingdom

Genre:

Western

Duration:

54 minutes

Year:

2008

Director:

Anja Kirschner

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Company:

Film London,

Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network,

Arts Council of England,

The Elephant Trust

Cast:

The Man with No Name

Marnie

Turnwood

Dr. Harwell Carver

JB

Crew:

Director

Director

Writer

Editor

Director of Photography