Ana Mendieta Movies

Sand and water meet in a glimmering silhouette.

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...

Considered to be the first of Ana Mendieta's video, performance and film based pieces responding to the death and murder of Sara Ann Otten on March...

United States 1979, 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.

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

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.

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

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

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

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.

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

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1980

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

Captures students at Henry Sabin Elementary School in Iowa City holding a circular parachute and pulling down to catch the air's resistance.