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...

A dead tree. A body. Ocean waves.

Film by Ana Mendieta

A ritual brings the stone heart to life.

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

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

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

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

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

Sand and water meet in a glimmering silhouette.

Short film by Ana Mendieta.

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...

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1978

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

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

A film by Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta, 1974

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...

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