Ana Mendieta Movies

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

A film by Ana Mendieta

A film by Ana Mendieta

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

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

Short film by Ana Mendieta.

An elemental film of flesh, blood, earth and water, Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Sangrienta depicts the artist’s reposing body on the ground,...

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 ritual brings the stone heart to life.

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

Sand and water meet in a glimmering silhouette.

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

Ana Mendieta, 1975

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...

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.