Stella Bastart is an international filmmaker and transdisciplinary artist working across experimental film, animation, and expanded cinema. Based between Boston, Massachusetts and Provence, France, she holds an MFA in Film/Video from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BFA in Film and Media Arts from Politécnico Grancolombiano in Bogotá, Colombia.

Her practice treats destruction as a form of creation. Working directly on 16mm film through scratching, inking, perforating, and cutting, she explores the material as both image and language. Wordplay, repetition, erasure, and multilingual forms shape her films, where memory, emotion, and identity emerge from the physical transformation of the medium. Across film, printmaking, painting, sound, and installation, her work remains grounded in hands-on process and tactile experimentation.

Her films and moving-image works have screened and exhibited internationally, including MicroActs (London), Hors Cadre Festival (Béziers, France), MassArt’s Spring MFA Thesis Exhibition at SoWa, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has also worked across radio, visual art, and music video, producing projects for international audiences and collaborative collectives.