Ana Mendieta Movies

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...

Artist, Ana Mendieta, narrates as corresponding images of her work in both still and moving images highlight her themes and meanings behind her work.

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

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

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

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

A ritual brings the stone heart to life.

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1978

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...

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1981

United States / Cuba 1981, Super 8 transferred to digital, black and white, silent, 2 min

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1981