Bogancloch
Directed by Ben Rivers. Produced by Ben Rivers, Sarah Neely, John Archer (Urth Productions). Co-Producers, Zsuzsanna Kiràly (Flaneur Films) and Hanna Björk Valsdóttir (Akkeri Films). Funded by Screen Scotland, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenberg, and Icelandic Film Fund. 16mm transferred to digital, 83 mins, 2024.
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.
Distributed by Rediance Films
Other websites Bogancloch (Screen Scotland), Bogancloch (Ben Rivers)
Awards
New Waves Acuitis Prize, Festival International du Film de La Roche-sur-Yon, October 2024
Kodak Silverway Award, FIDLab Marseille, 2021
Screenings
2024
7-17 Aug Locarno Film Festival, (International Competition/World Premiere)
15-21 Aug Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK Premiere)
24-28 Sept 25 FPS Festival, Croatia
26 Sept-2 Oct DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Korea (Frontier Competition)
26 Sept-6 Oct Reykjavik International Film Festival
9-20 Oct Festival du Nouveau cinéma de Montréal
10-20 Oct Lima Alterna International Film Festival (Emblems section)
14-20 Oct Festival International du Film de La Roche-sur-Yon (Competition)
14-20 Oct Valdivia International Film Festival (Gala Section)
17-29 Oct Viennale International Film Festival
17-30 Oct Mostra - São Paulo International Film Festival, (International Perspective section)
18-27 Oct Message to Man IFF (International Competition)
28 Oct-6 Nov Tokyo International Film Festival (World Focus section)
2-10 Nov Festival dei Popoli (International Competition)
8-16 Nov Festival de Sevilla (New Waves Competition)
14-24 Nov Festival L'Alternativa, Barcelona (International Feature Competition)
14-24 Nov International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Signed section)
20-30 Nov Porto/Post/Doc: Film & Media Festival (International Competition)
Bogancloch (Ben Rivers, 2024)
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.