Ana Mendieta Movies

United States / Mexico 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 4 min

A film by Ana Mendieta

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...

Captures students at Henry Sabin Elementary School in Iowa City holding a circular parachute and pulling down to catch the air's resistance.

Ana Mendieta, 1975

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1981

United States / Cuba 1981, Super 8 transferred to digital, black and white, silent, 2 min

A dead tree. A body. Ocean waves.

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.

Super-8 film transferred to high-definition digital support, colour, silent. Fundamento Palo Monte belongs to the Siluetas, a series of ephemeral...

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

United States 1978, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

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.

Volcán captures a raised mound of earth set against a grassy riverbank. A white silhouette in the shape of a female body lies atop of the...

Artist, Ana Mendieta, narrates as corresponding images of her work in both still and moving images highlight her themes and meanings behind her work.

In Ana Mendieta’s Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece), the artist’s silhouetted form is replicated as an effigy with blazing...

A ritual brings the stone heart to life.

Depicts a female form crafted from mud, whose centre (her womb) erupts into smoke which eventually leaves behind a scarred mark in the earth body.

Ana Mendieta, 1975