Friday 30 May 2008, 19.00

This is the premiere of acclaimed artist Anja Kirschner’s newest film (Anja Kirschner and David Panos, UK 2008), an unsettling trans-historical vision of the Wild West that collides with the suppressed history of the multi-racial American West and the conflicts breaking up contemporary East London. In a vanishing frontier, swarming with calculating surveyors, corrupt lawmen and hired thugs, a lone gunfighter must avenge the dispossessed, or remain trapped in a state of limbo, haunted by the past and pitted against a future which offers no retreat and no alternatives.

Anja Kirschner was born in 1977 in Munich, Germany and 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. Her film, POLLY II, Plan for a Revolution in Docklands, has been acclaimed for exploring themes central to Kirschner's work: the divisions and exclusions imposed through law, language, race and property and the difficulties and possibilities of social and political transformation.

David Panos is a musician, filmmaker and activist. His work with The London Particular 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 and the musical collective Antifamily and has previously collaborated with Anja Kirschner on a number of musical and film-based projects.

Funded by Arts Council England, London with the support of Film London Artists' Moving Image Network and supported by the Elephant Trust.

Trail of the Spider will also show from 2 June ­ 9 June as part of Nought to Sixty at the ICA, London.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended