Ana Mendieta Movies
- 1973
Door Piece
Door Piece01973HD
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- 1973
Moffitt Building Piece
Moffitt Building Piece01973HD
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...
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- 1973
Parachute
Parachute01973HD
Captures students at Henry Sabin Elementary School in Iowa City holding a circular parachute and pulling down to catch the air's resistance.
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- 1981
Birth (Gunpowder Works)
Birth (Gunpowder Works)01981HD
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.
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- 1980
Filmworks, August 1980 (La Ventosa and San Felipe, Mexico)
Filmworks, August 1980 (La Ventosa and San Felipe, Mexico)01980HD
Featured in Ana Mendieta's "Selected Performance Works"
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- 1981
Untitled (Figura, Gunpowder en los cracks)
Untitled (Figura, Gunpowder en los cracks)01981HD
Film by Ana Mendieta, 1981
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- 1979
Candle Ixchell, Black Ixchell Series (Black Ixchell Candle Ixchell)
Candle Ixchell, Black Ixchell Series (Black Ixchell Candle Ixchell)01979HD
A haunting Santerían morsel of mysticism, ritual, and artist-as-subject from the towering Cuban-American.
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- 1976
Burial of the Nanigo, (Woman Candle Silueta #2, New York Show)
Burial of the Nanigo, (Woman Candle Silueta #2, New York Show)01976HD
An ephemeral, feminist earth-body performance piece featuring 47 black ritual candles arranged in the silhouette of her body.
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- 1975
Heart of Rock with Blood
Heart of Rock with Blood01975HD
A ritual brings the stone heart to life.
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- 1978
Silueta de Arena
Silueta de Arena01978HD
Sand and water meet in a glimmering silhouette.
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- 1978
Untitled: 'Silueta' Sequence No. 2
Untitled: 'Silueta' Sequence No. 201978HD
United States 1978, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min
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- 1978
Untitled: 'Silueta' Sequence No. 1
Untitled: 'Silueta' Sequence No. 101978HD
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- 1976
Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece)
Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece)01976HD
In Ana Mendieta’s Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece), the artist’s silhouetted form is replicated as an effigy with blazing...
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- 1975
Energy Charge
Energy Charge01975HD
Ana Mendieta, 1975
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