LUX Trail of the Spider at Chats Palace/ Thursday 24th July 7.30pm

[luxweekly at lux.org.uk]

Thursday 24 July 2008. 7.30pm doors, 8pm film

LUX presents the HACKNEY PREMIERE of Anja Kirschner and David Panos'  
TRAIL OF THE SPIDER

at Chats Palace Arts Centre, 42-44 Brooksby’s Walk, Homerton,  
Hackney, London E9 6DF (Homerton overground)
Entrance FREE, no booking

...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.

Anja Kirschner (born 1977, Munich, lives in London) trained at the  
Slade School of Fine Art and the School of the Art Institute of  
Chicago. Her work spans a number of disciplines – film, painting,  
drawing and music – and collapses documentary and historical  
sources, literary themes and popular genres such as sci-fi and  
adventure films. Themes central to Kirschner's work are the divisions  
and exclusions imposed through law, language, race and property and  
the difficulties and possibilities of social and political  
transformation.

David Panos (born 1971, Athens, lives in London) is a musician,  
filmmaker and activist. His work with The London Particular  
(www.thelondonparticular.org) involves critical, political and  
artistic interventions in the process of urban regeneration in East  
London. He is the co-founder of the Difficult Fun record label  
(www.difficultfun.org) and the musical collective Antifamily and has  
collaborated with Anja Kirschner on a number of musical and film- 
based projects.

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