Released
Trail of the Spider
January 1 2008 (almost 17 years ago)Rating
95
Based on
1 review
- Directors: David Panos, Anja Kirschner
- Genre: Western
- Runtime: 54 m
- Country: United Kingdom
- Companies: Film London, Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network, Arts Council of England, The Elephant Trust
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.
