Ana Mendieta Movies
- 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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- 2015
Ana Mendieta, Nature Inside
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Artist, Ana Mendieta, narrates as corresponding images of her work in both still and moving images highlight her themes and meanings behind her work.
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- 1974
Body Tracks
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United States 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 1 min
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- 1975
Alma, Silueta en Fuego
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Ana Mendieta, 1975
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- 1972
Chicken Movie, Chicken Piece
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United States 1972, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 7 min
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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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- 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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- 1974
Blood Writing
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United States 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min
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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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- 1973
Door Piece
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- 1981
Birth (Gunpowder Works)
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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.
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- 1975
Blood Inside Outside
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Blood Inside Outside, demonstrates the pioneering feminist artist’s exploration of the multiple layers of meaning ascribed to blood—from...
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- 1975
Energy Charge
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Ana Mendieta, 1975
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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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- 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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- 1973
Parachute
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Captures students at Henry Sabin Elementary School in Iowa City holding a circular parachute and pulling down to catch the air's resistance.
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- 1979
Candle Ixchell, Black Ixchell Series (Black Ixchell Candle Ixchell)
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A haunting Santerían morsel of mysticism, ritual, and artist-as-subject from the towering Cuban-American.
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- 1974
Weather Balloon, Feathered Balloon
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United States 1974, Super 8 film transferred to digital, colour, silent, 4 min
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- 1978
Silueta de Arena
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Sand and water meet in a glimmering silhouette.
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- 1976
Burial of the Nanigo, (Woman Candle Silueta #2, New York Show)
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An ephemeral, feminist earth-body performance piece featuring 47 black ritual candles arranged in the silhouette of her body.
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