Ana Mendieta Movies

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

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

Film by Ana Mendieta, 1980

United States 1979, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min

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

Blood Inside Outside, demonstrates the pioneering feminist artist’s exploration of the multiple layers of meaning ascribed to blood—from...

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

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...

A film by Ana Mendieta

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

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

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