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Bogancloch

Bogancloch

Ben Rivers
United Kingdom, Germany, Iceland
2024
86 min
Dutch Premiere
Signed
Synopsis

In this follow-up to his 2011 film Two Years at Sea, Ben Rivers returns to the home of Jake Williams. For about 40 years, Williams has been living a quiet and self-sufficient existence at Bogancloch, his farm tucked away in the highlands of Aberdeenshire in Scotland. Completely absorbed by the landscape, he lives a subtly evolving life in a dramatically transformed world.

Rivers and Williams are receptive to those everyday wonders that so often go unnoticed. In mesmerizing black-and-white shots on 16mm and 35mm film (which the director developed himself) we witness the beauty of routine activities over the course of four seasons. The materiality of the celluloid reflects the physicality of the weatherbeaten setting, where all sense of time fades away and a new reality comes to the fore—just beneath the surface of everyday life.

We see Williams teaching in a classroom, using a parasol as part of a visualization of our solar system. Rivers concludes his film by zooming into the cosmos, and this tiny place on Earth suddenly becomes an unimaginably vast expanse.

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Credits
86 min
black and white
DCP
Spoken languages: English
Director
    Ben Rivers
    Ben Rivers
Production
    Sarah Neely for Urth Productions,
    John Archer,
    Ben Rivers
    Sarah Neely for Urth Productions,
    John Archer,
    Ben Rivers
Co-production
    Zsuzsanna Kiràly,
    Hanna Björk Valsdóttir
    Zsuzsanna Kiràly,
    Hanna Björk Valsdóttir
Executive producer
    Mark Thomas
    Mark Thomas
Cinematography
    Ben Rivers
    Ben Rivers
Editing
    Ben Rivers
    Ben Rivers
Sound
    Ben Rivers,
    Becky Thomson,
    Mark Vernon,
    Luke Fowler,
    Björn Viktorsson Colorist,
    Ivan Markovic
    Ben Rivers,
    Becky Thomson,
    Mark Vernon,
    Luke Fowler,
    Björn Viktorsson Colorist,
    Ivan Markovic
Sound Design
    Chu-Li Shewring
    Chu-Li Shewring
World Sales
    Rediance
    Rediance
Screening copy
    Rediance
    Rediance

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