Ana Mendieta Movies

United States 1975, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 6 min

A dead tree. A body. Ocean waves.

United States 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

This film shows the artist, covered in white bird feathers, running along the shoreline of La Ventosa beach in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.

Ana Mendieta, 1974

This film is a performance that the artist undertook at Old Man’s Creek, Sharon Center, Iowa City, Iowa. The performance was recorded on...

This beautiful film is a portrait of the life and work of Cuban-born American artist Ana Mendieta. Mendieta used her own body, the raw materials of...

United States c.1974, Super 8 film transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

A single-channel video (transferred from Super-8 film), color, silent, where we watch the artist from behind as she traces a rough outline of her...

A self-portrait, Mirage exposes Mendieta's naked body in nature reflected in a mirror. She holds a gourd and stabs it open to let its seeds fly away.

Single channel, super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent.

United States / Mexico 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

A 1975 work, Butterfly makes use of polarized graphic effects as Ana Mendieta's spectral body sprouts iridescent wings.

In X-Ray, Ana Mendieta uses a Cinefluorography unit, a medical tool usually employed for diagnostic and research procedures. In Mendieta’s...

A film by Ana Mendieta

A film by Ana Mendieta

An elemental film of flesh, blood, earth and water, Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Sangrienta depicts the artist’s reposing body on the ground,...

"Esculturas Rupestres" (Rupestrian Sculptures) was made in Jaruco Park outside of Havana. The low relief sculptures that resembled petroglyphs, were...