Bogancloch is where modern day hermit Jake Williams lives, nestled in a vast highland forest of Scotland. The film portrays his life throughout the seasons, with other people occasionally crossing into his otherwise solitary life. At the heart a song, an argument between life and death, each stating their case to rule over the world. The film is without exposition, it aims at something less recognisable, to a different existence of reality observed in discrete moments.
A sequel to TWO YEARS AT SEA, charting a subtly changing life in a radically changing world.
Ben Rivers is an artist and filmmaker based in London, England. He has made around 40 short and feature length films which tread a fine line between documentary and fiction, and often focusing on people who have separated themselves from mainstream society. Rivers won the second EYE Art Film Prize in 2016, as well as as FIPRESCI Prize at the 68th Venice 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. Selected solo shows include 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; full retrospective at Jeu de Plume in Paris. His last film KRABI, 2562 was the opening film for Moving Ahead section at Locarno, and his most recent feature film BOGANCLOCH will premiere in the main competition at Locarno.
Urth Productions
Hopscotch Films
Flaneur Films
Akkeri Films
Jake Williams
Director: Ben Rivers
DOP: Ben Rivers
Sound Recording: Luke Fowler, Ben Rivers, Becky Thomson, Mark Vernon
Sound Design: Chu-Li Shewring
Re-recording Mixer: Björn Viktorsson
Colorist: Ivan Marković
Editor: Ben Rivers
Producers: John Archer, Sarah Neely, Ben Rivers
Co-producers: Zsuzsanna Kiràly, Hanna Björk Valsdóttir,
Executive producer: Mark Thomas
Locarno Film Festival
Main Compeititon
Edinburg International Film Festival
Out of Competition
