Ana Mendieta Movies

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

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

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

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

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

A dead tree. A body. Ocean waves.

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

Volcán captures a raised mound of earth set against a grassy riverbank. A white silhouette in the shape of a female body lies atop of the...

Ana Mendieta, 1975

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

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

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

A film by Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta, 1974

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

A film by Ana Mendieta

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

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