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Showing of the film "Trail of the Spider", Chats Palace, 24 July 2008 |
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
Thursday 24 July 2008. 7.30pm doors |8pm screening | party 'til late at
Chats Palace Arts Centre, 42-44 Brooksby¹s Walk, Homerton, Hackney, London
E9 6DF
Entrance FREE
LUX presents - HACKNEY PREMIERE of Anja Kirschner and David Panos',
'TRAIL OF THE SPIDER'
...filmed on location in Hackney Marshes & Essex
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the makers of the film + bar
and DJs MIZ CB2000 & guests.
Trail of the Spider is a Western shot in Hackney and Essex, with a cast of
actors and non-actors including many residents of East London.
The film recreates the epic panoramas of the Wild West using landfill
sites in the Thames Gateway, gravel pits serving the Olympic Park, and
Hackney Marshes - an area affected by the land grab accompanying the 2012
Olympics.
Trail of the Spider takes elements from the history of the
Western (the stylized violence of Spaghetti Westerns and the melodrama of
golden era 'Horse Operas') and combines them with the suppressed history
of the multi-racial American West, where many cowboys were black, and
alliances that crossed racial boundaries were common.
The film also addresses class conflict and displacement in East London
today. By using standard Western plot devices of the 'arrival of the
railroad' and the 'end of an era', Trail of the Spider explores the
compromises and struggles of a population facing a new order of property
speculation and gentrification.
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