Ana Mendieta

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Short film by Ana Mendieta.

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 dead tree. A body. Ocean waves.

Super-8 film transferred to high-definition digital support, colour, silent. Fundamento Palo Monte belongs to the Siluetas, a series of ephemeral...

1. Sweating Blood, November 1973 2. Blood Writing, February 1974 3. Body Tracks, March 1974 4. Burial Pyramid, Summer 1974 5. Untitled, Summer...

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...

Ana Mendieta, 1975

Ana Mendieta, 1974

In Ana Mendieta’s Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece), the artist’s silhouetted form is replicated as an effigy with blazing...

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

Ana Mendieta, 1981

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

United States 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 1 min

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.

Sand and water meet in a glimmering silhouette.

A ritual brings the stone heart to life.

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

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...

Film by Ana Mendieta

Film by Ana Mendieta

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1981

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1981

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1980

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1978

Featured in Ana Mendieta's "Selected Performance Works"

A film by Ana Mendieta

A film by Ana Mendieta

A film by Ana Mendieta