Trail of the Spider

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.

• Anja KirschnerDirector
• Matthew HylandOriginal Music Composer
• David PanosDirector
• Anja KirschnerWriter

• FloydThe Man with No Name
• Claudette BonneyMarnie
• Darren MatthewsTurnwood
• Robin LaineDr. Harwell Carver
• John BarkerJB
• Jessica RattiganJess
• Graham Morris AlmondJudah
• Andrew WestcottBenton
• Neil BurrowsSurveyors' Assistant
• Norman BarrowMan on Prairie
• Robin FreemanDead Man / Masked Man
• Cameron BainMasked Man