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.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
GB
Genres:
Western
Release:
January 2008
Production:
Film London, Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network, Arts Council of England, The Elephant Trust
Cast:
Floyd, Claudette Bonney, Darren Matthews, Robin Laine, John Barker, Jessica Rattigan, Graham Morris Almond, Andrew Westcott, Neil Burrows, Norman Barrow, Robin Freeman, Cameron Bain, Max Reeves, Marlowe Chan-Reeves
