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Two Years at Sea / Bogancloch

Two films by Ben Rivers

UK, 2011 / 2024

British artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers' bold experimental works lie between documentary and fiction. This two-disc Blu-ray set brings together his films about Jake Williams, a man who lives a life of solitude in the Scottish Highlands, fulfilling the radical dream he had as a younger man. Jake goes about his daily routine in the near-complete absence of any human ties, with Rivers' camera functioning as the lone connection between him and the world beyond his self-imposed isolation. These films chart a subtly changing life in a radically changing world.

Using vintage cameras, a variety of film stocks and processing the films by hand, Rivers' evocative and sensory films dismantle the conventional rules of documentary filmmaking.

“One of Britain’s most consistently exciting and inquisitive directors” Little White Lies

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ON BLU-RAY DECEMBER 2026

Diary for my Children

Mother Joan of the Angels
(Matka Joanna od Aniołów)

A film by Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Poland, 1960

A landmark of Polish cinema, this celebrated film is based on the documented story of the ‘demonic possession’ of a group of nuns that led to the burning of a priest at the stake in Loudun, France in 1634 (also the basis for Ken Russell’s notorious 1971 film The Devils).

Kawalerowicz’s film is a spare, visually astonishing and profoundly disturbing exploration of faith, repression, fanaticism and sexuality. Aided by an extraordinary performance by Lucyna Winnicka as Mother Joan, Kawalerowicz produces one of cinema’s most evocative and intense studies of the tragedy of emotion repressed by dogma.

Mother Joan of the Angels is presented from a stunning new 4K restoration.

“Kawalerowicz's masterpiece... translating inner turmoil into austere images reminiscent of Dreyer” Village Voice

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ON BLU-RAY NOVEMBER 2026

Diary for my Children