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Ana Mendieta (November 18, 1948 – September 8, 1985) was a Cuban-American performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist who is best known for her "earth-body" artwork. Born in Havana, Mendieta left for the United States in 1961.
Total trailers found: 53
05 November 1973
Single channel, super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent.
12 September 1979
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.
24 December 1974
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.
21 December 1973
Captures students at Henry Sabin Elementary School in Iowa City holding a circular parachute and pulling down to catch the air's resistance.
28 December 1980
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.
19 January 1978
United States 1978, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min
05 November 1974
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.
21 December 1975
In X-Ray, Ana Mendieta uses a Cinefluorography unit, a medical tool usually employed for diagnostic and research procedures.
24 December 1974
United States 1974, Super 8 film transferred to digital, colour, silent, 4 min
19 February 1981
Film by Ana Mendieta, 1981
12 September 1976
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 darkness.
01 January 1981
Some of the films are presented in tandem in darkened interiors that resemble the caves where Mendieta sculpted some of her final works.
01 June 1981
Mendietas last film was made off the coast of Florida, the silhouette points to Cuba, while the tropical waters undulate around the sandy earthwork.
31 August 1980
Featured in Ana Mendieta's "Selected Performance Works"
24 December 1974
United States / Mexico 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min
24 December 1974
United States 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min
19 January 1980
United States 1980, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 4 min
01 January 1974
This film is a performance that the artist undertook at Old Man’s Creek, Sharon Center, Iowa City, Iowa.
21 December 1981
"Esculturas Rupestres" (Rupestrian Sculptures) was made in Jaruco Park outside of Havana. The low relief sculptures that resembled petroglyphs, were influenced by Ana Mendieta’s interest in the indigenous Taíno people of Cuba.
15 September 2015
Artist, Ana Mendieta, narrates as corresponding images of her work in both still and moving images highlight her themes and meanings behind her work.
19 May 1978
Film by Ana Mendieta, 1978
21 May 1971
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 filmic painting of fields of dancing colors, comprised of vibrant strokes of blue and splashes of red.
19 January 1979
United States 1979, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min
21 December 1973
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.
24 December 1974
United States c.1974, Super 8 film transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min
24 December 1974
United States / Mexico 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 4 min
24 December 1972
United States 1972, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 7 min
12 September 1975
An elemental film of flesh, blood, earth and water, Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Sangrienta depicts the artist’s reposing body on the ground, its trick disappearance, and crimson blood filling its indent before Mendieta’s prone figure returns.
21 December 1975
A 1975 work, Butterfly makes use of polarized graphic effects as Ana Mendieta's spectral body sprouts iridescent wings.
19 January 1975
United States 1975, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 6 min
01 January 1987
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.
01 January 1981
1. Sweating Blood, November 1973 2. Blood Writing, February 1974 3. Body Tracks, March 1974 4. Burial Pyramid, Summer 1974 5.
24 December 1974
United States 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 1 min
01 March 1979
A haunting Santerían morsel of mysticism, ritual, and artist-as-subject from the towering Cuban-American.
13 August 1976
An ephemeral, feminist earth-body performance piece featuring 47 black ritual candles arranged in the silhouette of her body.
19 January 1981
United States / Cuba 1981, Super 8 transferred to digital, black and white, silent, 2 min
19 January 1975
Blood Inside Outside, demonstrates the pioneering feminist artist’s exploration of the multiple layers of meaning ascribed to blood—from death to rebirth.
24 December 1974
United States / Mexico 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min
12 September 1981
Depicts a female form crafted from mud, whose centre (her womb) erupts into smoke which eventually leaves behind a scarred mark in the earth body.
