Movies: Ana Mendieta

  • 2024
    Visiting Hours

    Visiting Hours (2024)

    Visiting Hours

    5.72024HD

    Alma, alone in her big townhouse, and Mina, a single mother from a housing project in another city, have organized their lives around the prison visits they make to their respective partners. When the two women meet in the room outside the visiting a...

    Visiting Hours
  • 1969
    Fils de Punk

    Fils de Punk (1969)

    Fils de Punk

    01969HD

    By following a music group, director JUDAT becomes interested in the punk movement and outsiders. He plans to make a documentary about it....

    Fils de Punk
  • 1981
    Ana Mendieta: Selected Film Works

    Ana Mendieta: Selected Film Works (1981)

    Ana Mendieta: Selected Film Works

    01981HD

    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 depicts the artist lying naked in a creek, suggesting cleansing and rebirth. In another film, "Keane Col...

    Ana Mendieta: Selected Film Works
  • 1974
    Burial Pyramid

    Burial Pyramid (1974)

    Burial Pyramid

    01974HD

    Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico....

    Burial Pyramid
  • 1980
    Fundamento Palo Monte (Silueta Series, Gunpowder Works)

    Fundamento Palo Monte (Silueta Series, Gunpowder Works) (1980)

    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 works that the artist made between 1973 and 1981 and then recorded on film or in photographs. Made in Io...

    Fundamento Palo Monte (Silueta Series, Gunpowder Works)
  • 1978
    Volcan de Arena, Silueta series (Volcán, Arena y Explosión)

    Volcan de Arena, Silueta series (Volcán, Arena y Explosión) (1978)

    Volcan de Arena, Silueta series (Volcán, Arena y Explosión)

    01978HD

    Film by Ana Mendieta, 1978...

    Volcan de Arena, Silueta series (Volcán, Arena y Explosión)
  • 1979
    Volcán

    Volcán (1979)

    Volcán

    01979HD

    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 form. The same shot then cuts to a frame where the base of the white figure spontaneously starts smoking. It the...

    Volcán
  • 1975
    Alma, Silueta en Fuego

    Alma, Silueta en Fuego (1975)

    Alma, Silueta en Fuego

    01975HD

    Ana Mendieta, 1975...

    Alma, Silueta en Fuego
  • 1974
    Body Tracks

    Body Tracks (1974)

    Body Tracks

    31974HD

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

    Body Tracks
  • 1973
    Moffitt Building Piece

    Moffitt Building Piece (1973)

    Moffitt Building Piece

    01973HD

    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 13 of 1973....

    Moffitt Building Piece
  • 1987
    Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra

    Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra (1987)

    Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra

    101987HD

    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 nature, and Afro-Cuban religion to express her feminist political consciousness and poetic vision. Int...

    Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra
  • 1974
    Grass Breathing

    Grass Breathing (1974)

    Grass Breathing

    21974HD

    United States c.1974, Super 8 film transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min...

    Grass Breathing
  • 1972
    Chicken Movie, Chicken Piece

    Chicken Movie, Chicken Piece (1972)

    Chicken Movie, Chicken Piece

    21972HD

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

    Chicken Movie, Chicken Piece
  • 2015
    Ana Mendieta, Nature Inside

    Ana Mendieta, Nature Inside (2015)

    Ana Mendieta, Nature Inside

    02015HD

    Artist, Ana Mendieta, narrates as corresponding images of her work in both still and moving images highlight her themes and meanings behind her work....

    Ana Mendieta, Nature Inside
  • 1976
    Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece)

    Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece) (1976)

    Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece)

    01976HD

    In Ana Mendieta’s Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece), the artist’s silhouetted form is replicated as an effigy with blazing fireworks, the flickering embers gradually extinguishing until there is but a single spark left to stave off total dar...

    Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece)
  • 1974
    Blood Sign

    Blood Sign (1974)

    Blood Sign

    01974HD

    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 body in blood against a white wall....

    Blood Sign
  • 1975
    Black Angel

    Black Angel (1975)

    Black Angel

    01975HD

    Short film by Ana Mendieta....

    Black Angel
  • 1974
    Blood + Feathers

    Blood + Feathers (1974)

    Blood + Feathers

    01974HD

    This film is a performance that the artist undertook at Old Man’s Creek, Sharon Center, Iowa City, Iowa. The performance was recorded on Super-8 film and 35mm slides. The film shows Mendieta standing naked on the sandy bank on one side of the creek, ...

    Blood + Feathers
  • 1981
    Ana Mendieta: Selected Performance Works (1973-1981)

    Ana Mendieta: Selected Performance Works (1973-1981) (1981)

    Ana Mendieta: Selected Performance Works (1973-1981)

    01981HD

    1. Sweating Blood, November 1973 2. Blood Writing, February 1974 3. Body Tracks, March 1974 4. Burial Pyramid, Summer 1974 5. Untitled, Summer 1974 6. Flower Silueta No. 2, June 1975 7. Alma Silueta En Fuego No. 2, November 1975 8. Silueta de ...

    Ana Mendieta: Selected Performance Works (1973-1981)
  • 1974
    Untitled

    Untitled (1974)

    Untitled

    01974HD

    A dead tree. A body. Ocean waves....

    Untitled