Ana Mendieta Movies

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.

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.

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...

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

Artist, Ana Mendieta, narrates as corresponding images of her work in both still and moving images highlight her themes and meanings behind her work.

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.

A ritual brings the stone heart to life.

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, 3 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...

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

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

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

A film by Ana Mendieta

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

Sand and water meet in a glimmering silhouette.