Trail of the Spider
movie
View on VideBits →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.
Cast & crew
Norman Barrow · David Panos · Robin Laine · Anja Kirschner · Jessica Rattigan · Floyd · Claudette Bonney · Darren Matthews · John Barker · Andrew Westcott · Neil Burrows · Graham Morris Almond
Studios & networks
Arts Council of England · Film London · Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network · The Elephant Trust