This is a lovely, if a little slow, short documentary.
It's beyond the budget of our documentaries, but it goes to show you how a simple idea, can build into a treatment and finally become a film.
Although it is modern in its look, the style of laying audio interviews down with pictures over them is an old technique dating back to the 1930s.
You could argue this film is slight in its storytelling. In that sense it has something in common with Vertov. There is a feeling of the film being a 'day in the life' of the crane driver.
The filmmaker exerts a high degree of control over the pictures. It feels tight. The control and lack of free wheeling that characterised kino-pravda, makes you wonder how much 'reality' you are watching.
Maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe the way the pictures and words are put together give us an accurate enough description of what its like to be a crane driver.
It won't let me embed, so you can find it at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bWreui-wxM
This is one of the films accepted for 4Docs.
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