Plot Summary

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.

Movie Details

Original Title
Trail of the Spider
Status
released
Original Language
en

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Production Companies

Film London logoFilm London
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network
Arts Council of England logoArts Council of England
The Elephant Trust