Ana Mendieta Movies

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...

Ana Mendieta, 1975

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

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

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

On the subjects of generation, birth, and motherhood. Shot in the Intermedia studio at the University of Iowa, Mendieta filmed close-up sequences of...

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

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

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

Some of the films are presented in tandem in darkened interiors that resemble the caves where Mendieta sculpted some of her final works. One film...

United States 1980, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 4 min

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

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

A dead tree. A body. Ocean waves.

Ana Mendieta, 1974

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...

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

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

Featured in Ana Mendieta's "Selected Performance Works"