Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra
Directed by Nereyda Garcia-Ferraz, Kate Horsfield, Branda Miller
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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 nature, and Afro-Cuban religion to express her feminist political consciousness and poetic vision. Interview footage with Mendieta and her own filmed records of her earthworks and performances are incorporated to render a vivid testament to her energy and extraordinary talent after her tragic, untimely death in 1985.Read moreLess
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. Interview footage with Mendieta and her own filmed records of her earthworks and performances are incorporated to render a vivid testament to her energy and extraordinary talent after her tragic, untimely death in 1985.
The story
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. Interview footage with Mendieta and her own filmed records of her earthworks and performances are incorporated to render a vivid testament to her energy and extraordinary talent after her tragic, untimely death in 1985.
Cast & crew
Ana MendietaSelfExplore the crew
- Producer
- Kate Horsfield
- Producer
- Nereyda Garcia-Ferraz
- Editor
- Tom Crawford
- Editor
- Rick Feist
- Editor
- Joe De Pierro
- Editor
- Marshall Reese
- Director
- Nereyda Garcia-Ferraz
- Director
- Kate Horsfield
- Director
- Branda Miller