Ana Mendieta Movies

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.

A director is interested in the punk movement and outsiders. Following a meeting with a music group, he plans to make a documentary about it.

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

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

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

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1981

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

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.

Ana Mendieta, 1975

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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