Sarah Beddington is a British visual artist and filmmaker based in London. Her research-based works in film and video, sculpture, performance and public art, explore the overlaps between the historical, the mythical and the everyday, often focusing on journeys and migration. Fadia’s Tree is Beddington’s first feature length film. As a self-shooting director, her background as a painter is evident in the way she frames images and allows the camera to linger on a shot. The film marks a culmination of her earlier and parallel works in which a poetic sensibility is used to draw out an alternate way of looking at complex subjects. Resolutely committed to the issues she makes work about, her films operate on both an intellectual and emotional level to open up new dialogues that may result in change for those seemingly trapped at the margins.
