With his witful and elegant 16 mm poetics, Ben Rivers masterfully portrays solitude and quiet resilience as he revisits Williams more than a decade after his film Two Years at Sea. The film returns to him, not to repeat, but to see what time has shaped. His days are marked by small rituals and the quiet company of the forest, with brief human crossings, song around a fire, a lesson under an umbrella, the hum of a choir, slipping through like sudden sunlight. Color appears sparingly, letting memory bleed softly into the present. There is no exposition, only the patient accumulation of moments in which the textures of wood, weather, and voice become the narrative. Crafted in grainy 16 mm, Bogancloch is both a continuation and a transformation: a meditation on how solitude changes, and how it continues to hum beneath the passing years. Unfolding not as a life under scrutiny, but as a breathing space between the visible and the unspoken.
Bogancloch
Bogancloch, is Jake Williams’ world. Through shifting seasons and rare encounters, the film observes his solitary rhythms—fragile gestures of persistence within a world quietly, radically changing.
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Original title: Bogancloch
Year of Production: 2024
Duration: 86 min
Country of Production: United Kingdom, Germany, Iceland
Languages: English, Scots
Subtitles: (Assumed) English
Director: Ben Rivers
Cinematographer: Ben Rivers
Editor: Ben Rivers
Sound Design: Chu-Li Shewring
Producer: Ben Rivers, John Archer, Sarah Neely
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Ben RIvers
United Kingdom
Director: Bogancloch, Two Years at Sea, Mares Nest
Ben Rivers (b. 1972) is a filmmaker and artist whose work inhabits the space between fiction and documentary. Working often in 16 mm, he crafts open narratives about lives out of sync with the mainstream, from seafarers to forest dwellers.
“Bogancloch reflects on solitude not as an absence, but as a state in which other presences—memory, routine, nature, quiet community—become audible. It is an open narrative where what happens between frames matters most.”
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