Ana Mendieta Movies

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

United States 1978, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

A dead tree. A body. Ocean waves.

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1980

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...

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

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

On the subjects of generation, birth, and motherhood. Shot in the Intermedia studio at the University of Iowa, Mendieta filmed close-up sequences of...

Short film by Ana Mendieta.

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

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

A film by Ana Mendieta

A film by Ana Mendieta

Featured in Ana Mendieta's "Selected Performance Works"

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...

A film by Ana Mendieta