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Art Week Exeter 2025: Bogancloch

Mon 09 Jun 2025

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£9* | £7* Members | £5* Students & Under 25s

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5.20pm

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Art Week Exeter 2025: Bogancloch

Dir. Ben Rivers
2024 | 86 mins | UK, Germany, Iceland | English
Jake Williams


Over a decade on from Two Years at Sea (2011), Ben Rivers returns to the ramshackle home of forest-dwelling hermit Jake Williams; Bogancloch. Nestled in a vast highland forest of Scotland, the film portrays his life throughout the seasons, with other people occasionally crossing into his otherwise solitary life.

At the heart a song, an argument between life and death, each stating their case to rule over the world. The film is without exposition, it aims at something less recognisable, a different existence of reality observed in discrete moments.

A sequel to Two Years at Sea (2011), is an intimate, experimental documentary charting a subtly changing life in a radically changing world.

‘Ben Rivers’ glorious new film continues his fascination with a Scottish forest-dweller. The pleasure of the film is that, if you are willing to spend some time with Jake on his own terms, there is an ease that comes with it’ Sight & Sound

About Ben Rivers:

Ben Rivers was born in Somerset, UK in 1972 and lives and works in London. Rivers’ films are typically intimate portrayals of solitary beings or isolated communities; his practice as a filmmaker treads a line between documentary and fiction. Rivers uses these themes as a starting point from which to imagine alternative narratives and existences in marginal worlds.

This screening is part of Art Week 2025. Run by the artist-led organisation Art Work Exeter, Art Week Exeter is more than just an art festival. It’s a city-wide celebration of imagination, community, and connection aimed at both art lovers and the culturally curious. From exhibitions and workshops to pop-up events and public art interventions, Art Week fills the city with opportunities to experience and engage with creativity in unexpected and delightful ways. Find out more about Art Week 2025


VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX, STUDIO 74


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