Trail of the Spider 2008

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.

Cast

Floyd

Claudette Bonney

Darren Matthews

Robin Laine

John Barker

Jessica Rattigan

Graham Morris Almond

Andrew Westcott

Neil Burrows

Norman Barrow

Robin Freeman

Cameron Bain

Max Reeves

Marlowe Chan-Reeves