Ana Mendieta Movies

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...

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1978

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

By following several groups of musicians, outsiders and artists, director JUDAT is interested in punk movements, outsiders and their words in our...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

Ana Mendieta, 1975

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...

Short film by Ana Mendieta.

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