After the previous week’s visit to the Yes camp we were talking and thinking about pop up shelters and temporary spaces. So visiting artist Bobby Niven’s Pig Rick Bothy in the grounds of the Gallery of Modern seemed a good place to discover. We were invited to take over the Bothy that day, cooked and had a film screening of Ben River’s Film Two Years at Sea.

TWO YEARS AT SEA “Jake lives in a ramshackle house in the middle of the forest. He is seen in all seasons, passing the time with strange projects, living the radical dream he had as a younger man, a dream he spent two years working at sea to realise. Using old 16mm camera artist Ben Rivers has made a series of films about people who live somehow disconnected from society and who have taken themselves into the wilderness. TWO YEARS AT SEA, extends his relationship with Jake, a man first encountered in his short film THIS IS MY LAND. Jake has a tremendous sense of purpose, surviving frugally, poised somewhere between a bygone age and a post-apocalyptic future. Rivers’ witty and gracefully constructed film, hand processed in his kitchen creates an intinate connection with an individual who would otherwise be a complete outsider to us”