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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cinema Guild has acquired North American distribution rights to “Bogancloch,” the latest feature from acclaimed British filmmaker ...
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 ...
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.
Rivers returns to document a past subject, Jake Williams, whose reclusive Scottish forest existence is fascinating but defies explanation Film-maker Ben Rivers, one of the doyens of Britain’s small ...
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 ...
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 ...