Thirteen years ago, Ben Rivers‘ Venice FIPRESCI prize-winner “Two Years at Sea” introduced the world to Jake Williams, a former sailor living in the middle of the forest, mainly off the grid. This ...

Cineuropa: Can we start by discussing the act of returning, iterations, and repetitions: does that concept hold any ambivalence for you in your work? Ben Rivers: Actually, it’s not ambivalent at all.

British artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers has returned to Bogancloch, nestled in a vast highland forest in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This is hermit Jake Williams’ home. And it is the title of ...

Cinema Guild has acquired North American distribution rights to “Bogancloch,” the latest feature from acclaimed British filmmaker Ben Rivers. The meditative documentary, which premiered in competition ...

Chinese sales agent Rediance has boarded Ben Rivers’ upcoming documentary Bogancloch, a sequel to 2011’s award-winning Two Years At Sea. Nestled in a vast highland forest in Scotland, Bogancloch is ...

In fact, the whole film is structured as a series of episodes that are more like animated stills than narrative sequences. And it produces the sense of being in the continuous present – as in a ...