Description
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.
About the director:
Ben Rivers
Artist, filmmaker. He is 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 FIPRESCI Prize at the 68th Venice for his first feature film Two Years At Sea. Selected solo shows include Phantoms, Triennale, Milan; Urth, The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Islands, Kunstverein of Hamburg; Earth Needs More Magicians, Camden Arts Centre, London; full retrospective at Jeu de Plume in Paris.
