Ana Mendieta Movies

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

Featured in Ana Mendieta's "Selected Performance Works"

In Ana Mendieta’s Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece), the artist’s silhouetted form is replicated as an effigy with blazing...

A ritual brings the stone heart to life.

Film by Ana Mendieta

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

United States 1978, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

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

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 1972, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 7 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.

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...

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

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

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

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1978