Ana Mendieta Movies

A director is interested in the punk movement and outsiders. Following a meeting with a music group, he plans to make a documentary about it.

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

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.

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

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

Film by Ana Mendieta

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

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

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

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...

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

Film by Ana Mendieta

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

Ana Mendieta, 1974

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