Ana Mendieta Movies

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

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.

Sand and water meet in a glimmering silhouette.

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 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...

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

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

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.

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

Ana Mendieta, 1974

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

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

Considered to be the first of Ana Mendieta's video, performance and film based pieces responding to the death and murder of Sara Ann Otten on March...

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...

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...

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

Blood Inside Outside, demonstrates the pioneering feminist artist’s exploration of the multiple layers of meaning ascribed to blood—from...

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