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Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) is regarded as one of the most significant artists of the postwar era. During her too-brief career, she produced a distinctive body of work that includes drawings, installations, performances, photographs, and sculptures. Less well known is her remarkable and prolific production of films. This richly illustrated catalogue presents a series of sequential color stills from each of twenty-one original Super 8 films that have been newly preserved and digitized in high definition for the 2015 exhibition, combined with related photographs, and reference still images from all of the artist´s 104 filmworks; together these illustrations sample the full range of the artist´s film practice from 1971 to 1981.

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Howard Oransky is Director of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota. There he has coorganized the exhibitions Lynn Hershman Leeson: Investigations (2011), Sacred Space, Contested Terrain (2012), and The House We Built: Feminist Art Then and Now (2013). Oransky previously served as Director of Continuing Education at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Director of Planning at the Walker Art Center.

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