portrait by Franny Schembri
b. 1992, Pietà, Malta
Education
2014-2016 : Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London - MA Photography, London UK
2011 : ERASMUS Journalism and PR - Westfälische Hochschule, Gelsenkirchen DE
2010-2013 : University of Malta (B.Communications with English), Msida MT
2002-2010: Johann Strauss School of Music (Harp, Piano, Music Theory), Valletta MT
Languages
Maltese (mother tongue) , English (mother tongue), French (fluent), German (basic), Italian (basic)
Performances
2024: Workshop with Mossoux Bonté (performer) BE
2023: La Folgore di Atena, artist in residency (writer, performer, performance designer) IT
2021: Les choses qui changent, video installation by Celia Hay, vernissage Jeune Création 2021(performer) FR
2018-2023 : La Messe de l'Âne created by Olivier de Sagazan (several tours notably at la Biennale Danza di Venezia and Festival Phenomena in Montréal) collaborator and performer FR
2019 : Carmen, feature film by Valerie Buhagiar (actor) MT CA
2018 : Ensayo #3, short fashion film by Hans Neumann (writer, narrator and performer) US
2018-2023 : Hybridation created by Olivier de Sagazan (collaborator and performer) several performances across the EU
2018 : Procession of Disappearance collaborative artist in residency at Spazju Kreattiv (project coordinator and performer) MT
2018 : Aphra and Aradia, feature film by Celia Hay (actor) UK
2016 : Le dernier Geste, short film by Celia Hay (narrator) FR
。Lac (2025) FR short film- fiction 10’ (writer, director)
-supported by La Region Bretagne
。Sur les fleurs la nuit (2021) FR MT experimental short film 4’ (writer, director, performer)
–premiere at Festival Instants Vidéo, Marseille (France) November 2021
。Electricity (croire aux fauves) (2021) MT experimental short film 1’ (filmmaker)
projected for The One Minutes Foundation at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL) January 2022
。Perpetual Child (2020) short film- fiction 10' MT (writer, director, coproducer)
-selected for EuroConnection 2018 at the Festival du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand
。 The Embalmer by Hideous Divinity (2019) IT NL US music video 5'38 (co-writer and performer)
。Ir-Raġel tal-Klieb (The Dog Man) (2019) MT short film - fiction 15' (writer)
。Camilla (2018) MT short film genre 21'(co-writer, director)
-Supported by Kunsill Nazzjonali tal-Ktieb
Selected Projects
2024: La Selva 3rd Film Accelerator with Werner Herzog Canary Islands
2023-2025: Cartoville Malte Gallimard Loisirs (writer and contributor) FR
2021: Scintillas: New Maltese Writing 1 Praspar Press (writer and contributor) MT
2019 : La Biennale di Venezia Pavillion de Saint Marin (main creative team-photographer) IT
2015 : The Riddle Riddles (performative installation) The Laundry E9 UK
2013 : Flee tin gly, Divergent Thinkers (artist) Spazju Kreattiv MT
"When I found Malta-based artist Stephanie Sant, it wasn't like a light bulb went off, but like an ember was glowing where everything else on the timeline was trying too hard to be slick." The White Pube
"Throughout the years I've known Stephanie, she has gone from a person very much engrossed in the arts to someone who has become possessed by them. Whether it's with photography, performance or literature, Steph is a person who will do whatever she can to try and realize her vision, and this vision is very exciting.
Since she discovered writing, or since she discovered her writing I have witnessed the growth of a writer who has gone from being enraptured into a daze by her visions to an author who is capable of harnessing that stupor and bending it to suit her somewhat outre yet seamlessly personal vision." Ambrose Galea, writer