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...

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

United States / Mexico 1974, Super 8 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...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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

A dead tree. A body. Ocean waves.

Ana Mendieta, 1974

This film shows the artist, covered in white bird feathers, running along the shoreline of La Ventosa beach in Oaxaca, Mexico.

A film by Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta, 1975

Featured in Ana Mendieta's "Selected Performance Works"

This film is a performance that the artist undertook at Old Man’s Creek, Sharon Center, Iowa City, Iowa. The performance was recorded on...

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