Ana Mendieta Movies
- 1978
Volcan de Arena, Silueta series (Volcán, Arena y Explosión)
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Film by Ana Mendieta, 1978
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- 1980
Filmworks, August 1980 (La Ventosa and San Felipe, Mexico)
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Featured in Ana Mendieta's "Selected Performance Works"
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- 1974
Silueta del Laberinto (Laberinth Blood Imprint)
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United States / Mexico 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min
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- 1974
Burial Pyramid
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Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.
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- 1987
Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra
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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...
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- 1981
Esculturas Rupestres
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"Esculturas Rupestres" (Rupestrian Sculptures) was made in Jaruco Park outside of Havana. The low relief sculptures that resembled petroglyphs, were...
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- 1981
Untitled: 'Silueta' of Sand
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United States / Cuba 1981, Super 8 transferred to digital, black and white, silent, 2 min
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- 1974
Untitled Silueta
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A film by Ana Mendieta
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- 1973
Sweating Blood
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Single channel, super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent.
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- 1974
Creek
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Ana Mendieta, 1974
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- 1980
Fundamento Palo Monte (Silueta Series, Gunpowder Works)
Fundamento Palo Monte (Silueta Series, Gunpowder Works)01980HD
Super-8 film transferred to high-definition digital support, colour, silent. Fundamento Palo Monte belongs to the Siluetas, a series of ephemeral...
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- 1974
Grass Breathing
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United States c.1974, Super 8 film transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min
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- 1975
Butterfly
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A 1975 work, Butterfly makes use of polarized graphic effects as Ana Mendieta's spectral body sprouts iridescent wings.
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- 1979
Volcán
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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...
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- 1975
Black Angel
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Short film by Ana Mendieta.
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- 1981
Ana Mendieta: Selected Performance Works (1973-1981)
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1. Sweating Blood, November 1973 2. Blood Writing, February 1974 3. Body Tracks, March 1974 4. Burial Pyramid, Summer 1974 5. Untitled, Summer...
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- 1974
Mirage
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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.
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- 1975
X-ray
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In X-Ray, Ana Mendieta uses a Cinefluorography unit, a medical tool usually employed for diagnostic and research procedures. In Mendieta’s...
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- 1979
Candle Ixchell, Black Ixchell Series (Black Ixchell Candle Ixchell)
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Film by Ana Mendieta
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- 1971
Untitled
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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...
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