Ana Mendieta Movies

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...

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

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

Ana Mendieta, 1974

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

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

Ana Mendieta, 1975

A dead tree. A body. Ocean waves.

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

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

A film by Ana Mendieta

Short film by Ana Mendieta.

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

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.

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...