Ana Mendieta Movies

A film by Ana Mendieta

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1980

An ephemeral, feminist earth-body performance piece featuring 47 black ritual candles arranged in the silhouette of her body.

Sand and water meet in a glimmering silhouette.

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

United States 1979, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Ana Mendieta, 1974

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...

Mendietas last film was made off the coast of Florida, the silhouette points to Cuba, while the tropical waters undulate around the sandy earthwork.

A ritual brings the stone heart to life.

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.

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

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