Filmmaker & Visual Artist
Stella Horta is a filmmaker and visual artist working between Berlin and Portugal. She studied at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) in Moving Image & Experimental Film (2019–2024), Audiovisual Communication at Escola Artística António Arroio in Lisbon (2013–2015), and filmmaking disciplines (directing, lighting, sound, and acting) at the European Film College in Denmark (2016–2017).
Stella Horta’s practice bridges experimental doc-fiction and film installation, treating the moving image as a meeting point for ecology, science, and somatic experience. She is drawn to narrative modes that begin in the body and breath, and to landscapes where the visible coexists with what remains subterranean, microscopic, or forgotten. Moving between cinema, the gallery, and the stage, she develops works that shift between observation and fabulation. She often collaborates with dance performers, sound artists, and researchers.
Selected presentations: IndieLisboa; Curtas Vila do Conde; Porto/Post/Doc; Waking Life Festival; Bendita Tú Festival de Cine; Azorean Film Festival; Labocine; This Is Short; DOCK 11; Sophiensaele; SOMA Gallery; ACUD Gallery; Silent Green; Hackesche Höfe Kino; Movimento Cinemas; Klein Space Chiado – A Video Series.
Stella Horta is a filmmaker and visual artist working between Berlin and Portugal. She studied at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) in Moving Image & Experimental Film (2019–2024), Audiovisual Communication at Escola Artística António Arroio in Lisbon (2013–2015), and filmmaking disciplines (directing, lighting, sound, and acting) at the European Film College in Denmark (2016–2017).
Stella Horta’s practice bridges experimental doc-fiction and film installation, treating the moving image as a meeting point for ecology, science, and somatic experience. She is drawn to narrative modes that begin in the body and breath, and to landscapes where the visible coexists with what remains subterranean, microscopic, or forgotten. Moving between cinema, the gallery, and the stage, she develops works that shift between observation and fabulation. She often collaborates with dance performers, sound artists, and researchers.
Selected presentations: IndieLisboa; Curtas Vila do Conde; Porto/Post/Doc; Waking Life Festival; Bendita Tú Festival de Cine; Azorean Film Festival; Labocine; This Is Short; DOCK 11; Sophiensaele; SOMA Gallery; ACUD Gallery; Silent Green; Hackesche Höfe Kino; Movimento Cinemas; Klein Space Chiado – A Video Series.
Filmmaker & Visual Artist
Stella Horta is a filmmaker and visual artist working between Berlin and Portugal. She studied at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) in Moving Image & Experimental Film (2019–2024), Audiovisual Communication at Escola Artística António Arroio in Lisbon (2013–2015), and filmmaking disciplines (directing, lighting, sound, and acting) at the European Film College in Denmark (2016–2017).
Stella Horta’s practice bridges experimental doc-fiction and film installation, treating the moving image as a meeting point for ecology, science, and somatic experience. She is drawn to narrative modes that begin in the body and breath, and to landscapes where the visible coexists with what remains subterranean, microscopic, or forgotten. Moving between cinema, the gallery, and the stage, she develops works that shift between observation and fabulation. She often collaborates with dance performers, sound artists, and researchers.
Selected presentations: IndieLisboa; Curtas Vila do Conde; Porto/Post/Doc; Waking Life Festival; Bendita Tú Festival de Cine; Azorean Film Festival; Labocine; This Is Short; DOCK 11; Sophiensaele; SOMA Gallery; ACUD Gallery; Silent Green; Hackesche Höfe Kino; Movimento Cinemas; Klein Space Chiado – A Video Series.
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.
Stella Horta is a filmmaker and visual artist working between Berlin and Portugal. She studied at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) in Moving Image & Experimental Film (2019–2024), Audiovisual Communication at Escola Artística António Arroio in Lisbon (2013–2015), and filmmaking disciplines (directing, lighting, sound, and acting) at the European Film College in Denmark (2016–2017).
Stella Horta’s practice bridges experimental doc-fiction and film installation, treating the moving image as a meeting point for ecology, science, and somatic experience. She is drawn to narrative modes that begin in the body and breath, and to landscapes where the visible coexists with what remains subterranean, microscopic, or forgotten. Moving between cinema, the gallery, and the stage, she develops works that shift between observation and fabulation. She often collaborates with dance performers, sound artists, and researchers.
Selected presentations: IndieLisboa; Curtas Vila do Conde; Porto/Post/Doc; Waking Life Festival; Bendita Tú Festival de Cine; Azorean Film Festival; Labocine; This Is Short; DOCK 11; Sophiensaele; SOMA Gallery; ACUD Gallery; Silent Green; Hackesche Höfe Kino; Movimento Cinemas; Klein Space Chiado – A Video Series.
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.
