Ana Mendieta Movies

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...

United States 1974, Super 8 film transferred to digital, colour, silent, 4 min

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

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...

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

A film by Ana Mendieta

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

Sand and water meet in a glimmering silhouette.

A film by Ana Mendieta

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

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

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...

A film by Ana Mendieta

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.

Ana Mendieta, 1975

An elemental film of flesh, blood, earth and water, Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Sangrienta depicts the artist’s reposing body on the ground,...