Movies

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

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

Ana Mendieta, 1974

A film by Ana Mendieta

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

A dead tree. A body. Ocean waves.

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.

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...

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

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

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

Ana Mendieta, 1975

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

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

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

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...

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

Short film by Ana Mendieta.

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.