Ana Mendieta Movies

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

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

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1980

Ana Mendieta, 1975

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.

1. Sweating Blood, November 1973 2. Blood Writing, February 1974 3. Body Tracks, March 1974 4. Burial Pyramid, Summer 1974 5. Untitled, Summer...

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

A film by Ana Mendieta

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1978

Ana Mendieta, 1975

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

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 film by Ana Mendieta

A dead tree. A body. Ocean waves.

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

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

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

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...