movies about 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.

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.

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

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...