Filmed by Shelby Adams and edited mostly by Mimi Pickering, this film documents an elderly farmer named Lee Banks in the hills of Kentucky. Like 'A Navajo Weaver', the film shows a process that involves the interaction of a person and the land, in this case that of farming and cleaning potatoes, and also like 'A Navajo Weaver', it avoids many of the sterile, ossified conventions that the documentary form had acquired by the 1970s. The camera's look at the landscape, often through improvisational pans, has an inspiring directness and a raw physicality that are appropriate to a film about a life lived close to the land: you can almost feel the camera touching the soil, as the farmer does. The film's immediacy also recalls the very beginnings of cinema, the films of Lumière.

Fred Camper

"Fiddle music plays around scenes of the old man coaxing potatoes from the ground as he carefully guides plow and horse. With only the briefest of introductions, you like the old man, respect his independence, and wish his family well."

Tom Brom, Cineaste