Ana Mendieta Filmes

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...

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

Ana Mendieta, 1974

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

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.

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

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.

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

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.

A dead tree. A body. Ocean waves.

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

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

A film by Ana Mendieta

A film by Ana Mendieta

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

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

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...

Short film by Ana Mendieta.

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