The Moo Man

Stephen Hook is a dairy farmer in England. His family farm is small. The rule in the trade is plain. Either you grow or you get out. Hook chooses not to follow that rule. He does not enlarge his herd. He does not deal with the big supermarkets. He processes and sells the milk himself. He knows every cow in the herd by name. The film watches him and the cows together. You see the milking and the daily work with the herd. The bond between the man and his animals sits at the centre of it. The telling is neither gilded nor gloomy. It records a countryside that is changing fast. Stephen Hook talks through his own farm in the ninety eight minute documentary, a British production Andy Heathcote and Heike Bachelier finished in 2013.