Ana Mendieta Movies

Blood Inside Outside, demonstrates the pioneering feminist artist’s exploration of the multiple layers of meaning ascribed to blood—from...

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

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...

Short film by Ana Mendieta.

A ritual brings the stone heart to life.

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

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

Ana Mendieta, 1974

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

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1980

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

United States 1979, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

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...

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1981

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.

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.

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

Featured in Ana Mendieta's "Selected Performance Works"

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