Stella Horta
Stella Horta is a filmmaker and visual artist based between Berlin and Portugal.
She graduated from UDK Berlin, having previously studied film at Escola Artística António Arroio in Lisbon and EFC in Denmark.
Interested in researching scientific imaginaries, more-than-human perspectives, and digital, corporeal, and ancestral memory and matter, she makes use of fluid media such as video, text, and sculpture.
She creates cinematic installations and film works that often emerge through research-driven and collaborative processes. Stella frequently collaborates with choreographers Judith Förster, Anna Nowicka, André Uerba, Renae Shadler, and Cranky Bodies a/Company; musicians Marc Lohr and Stav Yeini; the collective Feelings; and visual artist Dora Durkesac.
Her contributions span directing, filming, editing, video art, sculpture, live camera for performance, videos for stage, and art direction for film.
Her most recent short film, Water Tongue/ Língua D'Água, premiered at IndieLisboa (2025), with upcoming presentations at Moonscreen, Waking Life Festival.
Her work has been shown in Berlin at ACUD Galerie, Soma Gallery, Hackesche Höfe Kino, Sophiensaele, Tanztage Festival, DOCK 11, and Uferstudios, and in Portugal at IndieLisboa Film Festival and Ao Norte Film Festival.
She often mentors video projects and has taught somatic cinema in the Live Art Forms Master's program in Nuremberg, as well as documentary film to children at Manege, Neukölln.
Stella Horta is a filmmaker and visual artist based between Berlin and Portugal.
She graduated from UDK Berlin, having previously studied film at Escola Artística António Arroio in Lisbon and EFC in Denmark.
Interested in researching scientific imaginaries, more-than-human perspectives, and digital, corporeal, and ancestral memory and matter, she makes use of fluid media such as video, text, and sculpture.
She creates cinematic installations and film works that often emerge through research-driven and collaborative processes. Stella frequently collaborates with choreographers Judith Förster, Anna Nowicka, André Uerba, Renae Shadler, and Cranky Bodies a/Company; musicians Marc Lohr and Stav Yeini; the collective Feelings; and visual artist Dora Durkesac.
Her contributions span directing, filming, editing, video art, sculpture, live camera for performance, videos for stage, and art direction for film.
Her most recent short film, Water Tongue/ Língua D'Água, premiered at IndieLisboa (2025), with upcoming presentations at Moonscreen, Waking Life Festival.
Her work has been shown in Berlin at ACUD Galerie, Soma Gallery, Hackesche Höfe Kino, Sophiensaele, Tanztage Festival, DOCK 11, and Uferstudios, and in Portugal at IndieLisboa Film Festival and Ao Norte Film Festival.
She often mentors video projects and has taught somatic cinema in the Live Art Forms Master's program in Nuremberg, as well as documentary film to children at Manege, Neukölln.
