Exclusive Trailer for Ben Rivers' Bogancloch Discovers Harmony in the Natural World

      Two Years at Sea is not the most obvious candidate for a sequel, yet Ben Rivers––who has just unveiled a new project––has collaborated once again with Scottish musician Jake Williams (also from the 2007 short This Is My Land) on Bogancloch, which features a similarly chaotic style. With Cinema Guild set to launch Rivers’ latest at New York’s Anthology this Friday, we are excited to present its trailer.

      As Leonardo Goi remarked following last year’s Locarno, “With its ability to extract joy and beauty from the most ordinary routines, the film comes close to what Herzog once referred to as ‘ecstatic truth’––that enigmatic, hard-to-grasp form of truth accessible only through imagination. By the conclusion of Bogancloch, featuring a mesmerizing drone shot that lifts the camera skyward, diminishing Jake and his house into tiny specks, this small Highland region transforms into a vast expanse, with the shaggy-haired recluse becoming a sovereign of endless space.”

      Here’s the official synopsis: “Bogancloch is the home of Jake Williams, set within a wide highland forest in Scotland. The film depicts his life through the changing seasons, with occasional visitors entering his otherwise solitary existence. At its core is a song, a dialogue between life and death, each presenting its case to dominate the world. The film avoids exposition, striving for something less tangible, a different form of reality observed in individual moments. It serves as a sequel to Two Years at Sea (2011), depicting a subtly evolving life in a dramatically changing world.”

      See the preview and poster below: