Ana Mendieta Filmes

Captures students at Henry Sabin Elementary School in Iowa City holding a circular parachute and pulling down to catch the air's resistance.

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1981

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

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

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

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

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

A dead tree. A body. Ocean waves.

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...

Sand and water meet in a glimmering silhouette.

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

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

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1981

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.

Film by Ana Mendieta

A ritual brings the stone heart to life.

United States 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 1 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...

Ana Mendieta, 1974