Trail of the Spider

Overview

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.

Directed by David Panos, Anja Kirschner

Top cast

F

Floyd

The Man with No Name

C

Claudette Bonney

Marnie

Darren Matthews

Turnwood

R

Robin Laine

Dr. Harwell Carver

J

John Barker

JB

J

Jessica Rattigan

Jess

G

Graham Morris Almond

Judah

A

Andrew Westcott

Benton

N

Neil Burrows

Surveyors' Assistant

N

Norman Barrow

Man on Prairie

R

Robin Freeman

Dead Man / Masked Man

C

Cameron Bain

Masked Man

M

Max Reeves

Man in Forest

Marlowe Chan-Reeves

Boy in Forest

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