Ana Mendieta Movies

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

Short film by Ana Mendieta.

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

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.

Ana Mendieta, 1974

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

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...

A dead tree. A body. Ocean waves.

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.

Untitled is the first of over 100 films created by Ana Mendieta. By scratching and painting directly onto the film’s emulsion, she formed a...

United States 1972, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 7 min

United States 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 1 min

United States 1980, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 4 min

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

A film by Ana Mendieta

Some of the films are presented in tandem in darkened interiors that resemble the caves where Mendieta sculpted some of her final works. One film...

A film by Ana Mendieta

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1978

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

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...