Ana Mendieta Movies

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

A film by Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta, 1975

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

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

Short film by Ana Mendieta.

Untitled is the first of over 100 films created by Ana Mendieta. By scratching and painting directly onto the film’s emulsion, she formed a...

Mendietas last film was made off the coast of Florida, the silhouette points to Cuba, while the tropical waters undulate around the sandy earthwork.

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

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.

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

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

Super-8 film transferred to high-definition digital support, colour, silent. Fundamento Palo Monte belongs to the Siluetas, a series of ephemeral...

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 haunting Santerían morsel of mysticism, ritual, and artist-as-subject from the towering Cuban-American.

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

United States 1972, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 7 min

An ephemeral, feminist earth-body performance piece featuring 47 black ritual candles arranged in the silhouette of her body.