Ana Mendieta Movies

A film by Ana Mendieta

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

Ana Mendieta, 1975

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

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1980

Sand and water meet in a glimmering silhouette.

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

A dead tree. A body. Ocean waves.

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

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

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

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 1978, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

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

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

Ana Mendieta, 1975

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1981

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

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