Trail of the Spider
|Trail of the Spider
Status: Released
Runtime: 54
Release Date: 01/01/2008
Origin Language: en
Origin Country: US - GB
Languages: EnglishGerman
Production: Film LondonFilm London Artists’ Moving Image NetworkArts Council of EnglandThe Elephant Trust
Countries: United Kingdom
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0 (0)
Western
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.
