Bogancloch
Currently in post-production
Directed by Ben Rivers, co-produced by John Archer (Hopscotch/Urth Productions), Sarah Neely (Urth Productions) and Zsuzsanna Kiràly (Flaneur Films). Funded by Screen Scotland and Medienboard Experimental Fund, Berlin.
A sequel to Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers, 2011), the new film sees the filmmaker catch-up with Jake Williams, over a decade later, returning to Jake's house situated on the edges of the Clashindarroch forest, where he continues to live - happy and free - in his own unique, relatively solitary way.
Awards: FIDLab Marseille, 2021 - Kodak Silverway Award
Two Years At Sea (Ben Rivers, 2011)
Biography
Ben Rivers is an artist and filmmaker represented by Kate MacGarry Gallery in London. Awards include the EYE Art Film Prize, 2016; FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, 68th Venice Film Festival for his first feature film Two Years At Sea; Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel 42, for Sack Barrow; Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, 2010; twice winner of the Tiger Award at Rotterdam Film Festival, twice shortlisted for the Jarman Award, and was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University in 2015. Recent solo shows include Urthworks, Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset; Phantoms, Triennale, Milan; Urth, The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Islands, Kunstverein of Hamburg; Earth Needs More Magicians, Camden Arts Centre, London; The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers, Artangel, London and Whitworth Museum, Manchester. His work is held in collections including Tate Modern, Hamburg Kunsthalle, FRAC, Ville de Geneve and National Museum of Scotland.