Set in the ever changing landscape of Barton Glebe – a Christian woodland burial site near Cambridge, UK. Through conversations with people who have various relationships to the site, Earth to Earth: Natural Burial and the Church of England explores changing attitudes towards death, disposal and relationships with the landscape. With beautiful sound and images of the minutiae of nature shot on location, the film immerses us in the therapeutic possibilities of 'nature' for the grieving process, and the freedom it allows for diverse and original expressions of memorial and grief. Through anecdote from those who have invested significance in this landscape, we see how it engenders both a sense of continuity and continued relationship with the deceased, and the possibility of reconceiving part of the self in terms of one's funeral destiny. We see how a burial site really can feel so full of life.

Sarah Thomas is a Visual Anthropologist and film maker. She spent much of her youth in Kenya,  which allowed her to experience first hand that there are many ways of seeing the world. Her interest in people led her to a degree in Anthropology and subsequently a Masters in Visual Anthropology at the Granada Centre Manchester, in 2003. Her graduation film, 'After The Rains Came: Seven short stories about objects and lifeworlds', saw her return to Kenya, and has had screenings at festivals worldwide.

She has since worked on multiple ethnographic films for a research project about migration and visual culture at Tate Britain gallery London, and in 2008 made 'Hannah Frank: The Spark Divine' – a biographical documentary to mark the centenary exhibition of Glasgow Jewish Artist Hannah Frank.

Her latest film, Earth to Earth: Natural Burial and The Church of England is now touring the international film festival circuit and being used within the field of Death Studies and among professionals in the Natural Burial industry.