Bogancloch

Bogancloch is Jake Williams’ home, 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. A sequel to Two Years at Sea (2011), charting a subtly changing life in a radically changing world.

Credits

Director, Writer, DoP, Editor

Ben Rivers

Producers

John Archer – Hopscotch Films
,
Sarah Neely
and
Ben Rivers

Co-producers

Zsuzsanna Kiràly – Flaneur Films
and
Hanna Björk Valsdóttir – Akkeri Films

Sound Design

Chu-Li Shewring

Re-recording mixer

Björn Viktorsson

Technical information

Scotland, Germany, Iceland 2024
DCP · 1 : 2.65 · 5.1 Mix ·

With

Jake Williams

Funding provided by

Screen Scotland
,
Medienboard Experimental Fund
and
Icelandic Film Centre

Festivals

Locarno Film Festival – International Competition
;
Edinburgh International Film Festival
;
25FPS
;
DMZ Docs
;
Reykjavik Film Festival
;
Nouveau Cinéma
;
Lima Alternativa International Film Festival
;
Festival International du Film de La Roche-sur-Yon – Prix Nouvelles Vagues
;
FICValdivia
;
Underdox München
;
Viennale
;
São Paulo International Film Festival
;
Message to Man – Silver Centaur for an artistic perspective
;
Tokyo International Film Festival
;
Festival dei Popoli – Second Prize Best Feature Film
;
Seville European Film Festival
;
Alternativa Fest
;
IDFA
;
Porto/Post/Doc: Film & Media Festival – Vincente Pinto Abreu Grand Prix
;
Hainan Island International Film Festival
;
DocPoint Tallinn
;
Doc Fortnight
;
KINO ATHENS International Independent Film Festival
;
Vilnius International Film Festival
;
Cinéma du Réel
;
CPH:DOX
;
Hong Kong International Film Festival
;
Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival - FICCI
;
Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival
;
PLAY-DOC
;
DOXA Documentary Film Festival
;
Millennium Docs Against Gravity
;
BelDocs
;
FICUNAM
and
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

World Sales

Rediance

Bio/Filmo Ben Rivers

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.

Presskit

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