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Trail of the Spider

Western | 2008-01-01 | United Kingdom

IMDB9.5 / 10

Budget$0

Budget$0

Runtime54 min.

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.

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

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Trail of the Spider (2008) - trailer