Ana Mendieta Movies

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

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

Ana Mendieta, 1975

An ephemeral, feminist earth-body performance piece featuring 47 black ritual candles arranged in the silhouette of her body.

A film by Ana Mendieta

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...

A dead tree. A body. Ocean waves.

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

United States 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 1 min

Ana Mendieta, 1975

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

Short film by Ana Mendieta.

A film by Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta, 1974

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.

Featured in Ana Mendieta's "Selected Performance Works"

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

A film by Ana Mendieta

On the subjects of generation, birth, and motherhood. Shot in the Intermedia studio at the University of Iowa, Mendieta filmed close-up sequences of...

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