POV is proud to announce the newest entry to our online short film festival: Eva Weber‘s City of Cranes. Watch it now on the POV website!
A bright orange crane high up in the sky

Cranes are a staple of the modern city skyline, as ubiquitous as the skyscrapers and towers they’re put in place to build. The film tells the story of the men and women who drive these machines — in their own words and from their own breathtaking point of view.

Originally created for BBC Channel 4’s “3 Minute Wonder” program, City of Cranes now runs 14 minutes and is divided into four chapters: “The City Above,” “The Last Topman,” “Ballet of Cranes” and “Solitary.”

Each chapter poetically represents a different aspect of cranes, including the routine of being a crane driver, the density of urban skyscrapers and the beauty of the cranes themselves. Through filmmaker Weber’s masterful camera lens, we see the cranes move with fluidity, evoking the grace of the birds that they are named after.

So sit back and enjoy watching City of Cranes — a magnificent piece of short documentary filmmaking. Even if you can’t tell a hammerhead from a luffing jib tower, you’ll enjoy the way Eva Weber’s film takes you hundreds of feet above the ground for a whole new perspective.

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Andrew Catauro
Andrew Catauro is a former Series Producer at POV. While at POV, he served on editorial panels and presented at festivals and conferences including the Sundance Film Festival, Doc/It in Trento, Italy, and the Asian Documentary Forum in Kolkata, India; as well as juries for the Brooklyn Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and East Silver Market in Jihlava, Czech Republic. His studies in Italian Cinema earned him the Immersion Award from the Milan International Film Festival. Andrew previously worked for the New York AIDS Film Festival and assisted Alexandra Kerry on documentary films in development. He holds a dual bachelor's degree from the Newhouse School of Public Communications and the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University.Andrew's favorite documentaries are:Dark Days - Marc SingerThe Gleaners & I - Agnès VardaSilverlake Life: The View from Here - Peter Friedman & Tom JoslinManufacturing Consent - Mark Achbar & Peter WintonickTongues Untied - Marlon RiggsAmerican Dream - Barbara KoppleFamily Portrait Sittings - Alfred GuzzettiIn Search of Our Fathers - Marco WilliamsThe Education of Shelby Knox - Marion Lipschutz & Rose RosenblattNobody's Business - Alan Berliner