Ana Mendieta Movies

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

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.

Ana Mendieta, 1975

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...

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

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

Ana Mendieta, 1975

Ana Mendieta, 1974

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

Film by Ana Mendieta

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.

Blood Inside Outside, demonstrates the pioneering feminist artist’s exploration of the multiple layers of meaning ascribed to blood—from...

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

Depicts a female form crafted from mud, whose centre (her womb) erupts into smoke which eventually leaves behind a scarred mark in the earth body.

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...

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

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