Trail of the Spider

Directed by Anja Kirschner and David Panos

With Floyd, Claudette Bonney, Darren Matthews, Robin Laine and John Barker

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.