Ana Mendieta Filmes

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.

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

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.

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1978

Ana Mendieta, 1975

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1981

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...

Ana Mendieta, 1975

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

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 film by Ana Mendieta

A ritual brings the stone heart to life.

United States 1974, Super 8 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.

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

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

Featured in Ana Mendieta's "Selected Performance Works"

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

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...

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...