Ana Mendieta Movies

A dead tree. A body. Ocean waves.

This film is a performance that the artist undertook at Old Man’s Creek, Sharon Center, Iowa City, Iowa. The performance was recorded on Super-8 film...

Short film by Ana Mendieta.

By following several groups of musicians, outsiders and artists, director JUDAT is interested in punk movements, outsiders and their words in our soci...

Ana Mendieta, 1974

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.

United States 1974, Super 8 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.

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

United States / Mexico 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 4 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 body...

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

Alma, alone in her big townhouse, and Mina, a single mother from a housing project in another city, have organized their lives around the prison visit...

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

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 na...