International Premiere
The Ghost of Mr Bawky is a cinematic portrait of the director’s father that blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality to explore the role of silence in Australian life. Confronting the taboo of suicide, the film weaves together past and present, shedding light on the lingering ghosts that inhabit a family home.
Esther Carlin
Esther Carlin is an artist and filmmaker from Naarm (Melbourne) living in Brussels. She makes film-based installations that draw on her training in art and anthropology. Using critical ethnographic research methods, she develops artworks that articulate the importance of poetics as a way of examining specific histories and sites, while asking questions of subject-making, imaging and representation. She was the recipient of the 2022 Combined Arts John Monash
Scholarship and graduated with a Masters of Art Practice – Critical Tools from Erg (école de recherche graphique–école supérieure des arts), Brussels.