Sadia Sadia is a director, editor, producer and installation artist. She is also an award-winning record producer and songwriter.
Sadia began her career by becoming one of the first women in the world to be signed to a major label as a record producer.[1][2] She currently works with moving images as an editor and director, as well as creating installation pieces, audio, and experimental short films.
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Sadia worked largely with the Canadian guitar player David Wilcox, producing the albums [3] ‘Out of the Woods’, ‘My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble’, ‘Bad Reputation’, ‘Breakfast at the Circus’, and ‘The Natural Edge’, many of which achieved gold or platinum status. She also co-wrote many of the titles on these albums. On these discs, she is billed simply as 'Sadia', or occasionally, "S. Sadia." These recordings also formed the basis of a number of ‘Greatest Hits’ packages, including the platinum-selling ‘Over Sixty Minutes With'.[4]
Founding member of the multimedia world fusion project Equa with Stephen W. Tayler. Signed to Polygram (Australia) in 1996, producing the eponymously-titled ARIA [5] nominated album 'EQUA' in the same year.
The Sydney Dance Company has two works in their permanent repertoire, ‘Unwitting Sight’ (1998) [6] and ‘Cradle Song’ (2001) [7] choreographed by Wakako Asano to music by Equa.
In 1996, Sadia also worked on the TUC ‘Respect:Unite Against Racism’ campaign, producing the single 'Respect' featuring dozens of international recording artists. The project received a commendation from the House of Commons (UK) through the passage of an Early Day Motion (EDM), as well as national media coverage..
Sadia’s work has been widely sequenced to films and television programmes by companies such as Polygram/Miramax, Interscope, and Universal Pictures, among others.[8]
Sadia produced, edited, and (working with Stephen W. Tayler as Equa) scored the short film The Noon Gun.[9] Based on footage originally shot in Afghanistan in 1971, and with the support of the British Council,[10] The Noon Gun had its world premiere at the 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival in August 2004. It subsequently had its UK premiere at the National Museum for Photography, Film and Television (now the National Media Museum [11]) in Bradford in September 2004. Shortlisted for the Satyajit Ray Foundation [12] Short Film Competition, it has featured in film festivals worldwide.[13]
As a filmmaker, Sadia has also produced and edited the short ‘The End of the Party: Hyde Park 1969’,[14] a view of the 60’s based on previously unseen footage of the famous first performance by Blind Faith in Hyde Park; produced and edited ‘Iggy the Eskimo Girl’,[15] a short featuring Syd Barrett’s (Pink Floyd) girlfriend Iggy, ubiquitously and affectionately known in the 1960’s as ‘Iggy the Eskimo girl’; and directed, produced and edited the film ‘Lit From Within: The Film and Glass Works of Anthony Stern’,[16] a short documentary by Sadia about the filmmaker and glass artist Anthony Stern, which explores some of Anthony’s life and works, and examines the aesthetic and philosophical relationship between glass and film as materials through which light passes. She also worked as director, editor, producer and sound designer on ‘San Francisco Redux No. 1’,[17] the first installment of a multi-channel installation work. The latter films had their world premiere as part of the curated programme ‘Le Cinema D’Avant-Garde’ at La Cinematheque Francaise [18] in Paris, France on June 27, 2008.
Sadia is also the creator of the single channel video installation ‘The Memory of Water (Part 1)’ [19][20] which was acquired by ACMI [21](The Australian Centre for the Moving Image) to form part of its permanent collection of exemplary works by Australian and international artists. It featured in the exhibition ‘Proof: The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes’. The work ran as a loop from 09.12.04 to 13.02.05 as part of the show, as well as appearing on a number of exterior screens in Federation Square, Melbourne.
Sadia is an occasional contributor to the photography magazine ‘DayFour’[22], most recently in the DayFour ‘Ulysses II’ [23] publication and exhibition at printspace [24], London, December 2010- January 2011.
In 2009, Sadia was awarded a Studio 18 artists' residency,[25] for international "contemporary visual artists pursuing an innovative practice in a professional capacity", at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces in Melbourne, Australia. This also marked the first public view of her 2009 installation work ‘Noise/Ghosts of Noise’ [26]. During this time she commenced production on her filmed multi-channel installation, 'Metamorphoses in 'A' Minor [27]. Originally conceived in 2007, the work commenced production at the Kennedy Miller Mitchell motion capture soundstage at Sydney Gate in Sydney, Australia, with the support of Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and a British Council (Aus) Project Grant.[28]. The work was completed in March 2011, at the Chimera Arts studios in Wiltshire, UK.