Ana Mendieta Movies

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

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

A film by Ana Mendieta

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.

Short film by Ana Mendieta.

Sand and water meet in a glimmering silhouette.

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

Featured in Ana Mendieta's "Selected Performance Works"

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...

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.

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1980

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

"Esculturas Rupestres" (Rupestrian Sculptures) was made in Jaruco Park outside of Havana. The low relief sculptures that resembled petroglyphs, were...

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,...