Filmmaker & Visual Artist
Living and working between Berlin and Portugal, she creates filmic works exploring science, ecology and embodied storytelling, drawn to the potential of cinema as a tool to restore our relational imagination. Growing up immersed in dance, she often collaborates with choreographers and dancers.
Stella graduated from Berlin University of the Arts, specializing in Moving Image, and also studied Audiovisual Comminication at Escola Artística António Arroio in Lisbon and at the European Film College in Denmark.
Recent works include the short film Water Tongue / Língua D’Água (2025), a 19-minute exploration of communication across human and non-human forms that premiered at IndieLisboa 2025.
Her works have been presented at IndieLisboa, Curtas Vila do Conde, Waking Life Festival, Labocine, This Is Short, Dock 11, Sophiensaele, ACUD Galerie, SOMA Gallery Berlin, Klein Space Chiado, Bendita Tú Festival de Cine, and Hackesche Höfe Kino.
Stella also mentors video projects and has taught somatic cinema in the Live Art Forms Master’s program in Nuremberg with Anna Nowicka, as well as documentary filmmaking for a youth group at Manege in Neukölln, Berlin with Feelings Collective.
Living and working between Berlin and Portugal, she creates filmic works exploring science, ecology and embodied storytelling, drawn to the potential of cinema as a tool to restore our relational imagination. Growing up immersed in dance, she often collaborates with choreographers and dancers.
Stella graduated from Berlin University of the Arts, specializing in Moving Image, and also studied Audiovisual Comminication at Escola Artística António Arroio in Lisbon and at the European Film College in Denmark.
Recent works include the short film Water Tongue / Língua D’Água (2025), a 19-minute exploration of communication across human and non-human forms that premiered at IndieLisboa 2025.
Her works have been presented at IndieLisboa, Curtas Vila do Conde, Waking Life Festival, Labocine, This Is Short, Dock 11, Sophiensaele, ACUD Galerie, SOMA Gallery Berlin, Klein Space Chiado, Bendita Tú Festival de Cine, and Hackesche Höfe Kino.
Stella also mentors video projects and has taught somatic cinema in the Live Art Forms Master’s program in Nuremberg with Anna Nowicka, as well as documentary filmmaking for a youth group at Manege in Neukölln, Berlin with Feelings Collective.
Filmmaker & Visual Artist
Stella Horta is an artist filmmaker living and working between Berlin and Portugal. She often collaborates with dance performers, sound artists and researchers. Her work moves fluidly between cinema, gallery, and theatre contexts. In her solo practice, she creates filmic works shaped by ecology, science, and embodied storytelling. She asks how video can come into existence through the senses and lived, bodily experience, subverting the dominance of the visual. She is drawn to film as a tool for regenerative creation.
Stella graduated from UdK Berlin University of the Arts, specializing in Moving Image. She also studied Audiovisual Communication at Escola Artística António Arroio in Lisbon, and directing, lighting, sound, and acting at the European Film College in Denmark. Recent works include the Azolla Allegory video installation and the short film Water Tongue / Língua D’Água (2025), a 19 minute meditation on communication across human and non human forms, which premiered at IndieLisboa 2025.
Her works have been presented at Labocine, This Is Short, IndieLisboa, Curtas Vila do Conde, Porto/Post/Doc, Klein Space Chiado- A Video Series, Azorean Film Festival, Waking Life Festival, Dock 11, Sophiensaele, Tanztage Berlin, ACUD Galerie, SOMA Gallery, Bendita Tú Festival de Cine, and at Hackesche Höfe and Movimento Cinemas in Berlin.
Stella also mentors video projects and teaches. She has taught somatic cinema in the Live Art Forms Master’s program in Nuremberg with Anna Nowicka, and documentary filmmaking for a youth group at Manege in Neukölln, Berlin with Feelings Collective.
Stella Horta is an artist filmmaker living and working between Berlin and Portugal. She often collaborates with dance performers, sound artists and researchers. Her work moves fluidly between cinema, gallery, and theatre contexts. In her solo practice, she creates filmic works shaped by ecology, science, and embodied storytelling. She asks how video can come into existence through the senses and lived, bodily experience, subverting the dominance of the visual. She is drawn to film as a tool for regenerative creation.
Stella graduated from UdK Berlin University of the Arts, specializing in Moving Image. She also studied Audiovisual Communication at Escola Artística António Arroio in Lisbon, and directing, lighting, sound, and acting at the European Film College in Denmark. Recent works include the Azolla Allegory video installation and the short film Water Tongue / Língua D’Água (2025), a 19 minute meditation on communication across human and non human forms, which premiered at IndieLisboa 2025.
Her works have been presented at Labocine, This Is Short, IndieLisboa, Curtas Vila do Conde, Porto/Post/Doc, Klein Space Chiado- A Video Series, Azorean Film Festival, Waking Life Festival, Dock 11, Sophiensaele, Tanztage Berlin, ACUD Galerie, SOMA Gallery, Bendita Tú Festival de Cine, and at Hackesche Höfe and Movimento Cinemas in Berlin.
Stella also mentors video projects and teaches. She has taught somatic cinema in the Live Art Forms Master’s program in Nuremberg with Anna Nowicka, and documentary filmmaking for a youth group at Manege in Neukölln, Berlin with Feelings Collective.
