Mixing rare film footage from Hackney Archives with freshly shot cinematography, Under the Cranes
is a lyrical, painterly evocation of Hackney over several hundred
years. Based on Michael Rosen's poetic play for voices, we hear from
Shakespeare in Shoreditch, a Jamaican builder, a Turkish Barber and the
43 Group taking on Moseley in Dalston. Join Director of Under the Cranes,
Emma-Louise Williams, with Michael Rosen and Ken Worpole as they
discuss how the film celebrates diversity whilst critiquing the rush for
urban "regeneration".