Valentina Rosset

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Um Tropeço em Cinco Movimentos (A Slippage in Five Movements, 2023)
15min. 16mm & Super 8mm transfered to digital. Brasil/USA. Trailer
An  immersion into a musical performance of Toru Takemitsu’s graphic score composition “Corona: For Pianist(s)” , incorporating the pianist’s hand gestures and the interior structure of the  piano into rhythmic landscapes and abstractions.

  • Screenings 2024: Rotterdam International Film Festival; Curta Cinema Rio de Janeiro; Rotations Series at 2220+ Arts and Archives, Los Angeles; Festival ECRÃ; Museum of Modern Art, Cinematheque of Rio de Janeiro; Cámara Lúcida Festival del Cine; Beijing International Short Film Festival; Kinoskop International Festival of Analog Experimental Cinema; Interface VideoArt.
  • Press:  Film Review by Pablo Gamba, published by Los Experimentos; Q&A Conversation, Museum of Modern Art-Rio Cinematheque.


Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor: Valentina Rosset / Piano Performance:  Jack Dettling / Sound Recording: Chengqing Zhu & Leonardo Pirondi / Camera Assistance: Ryan Bradford, Sofia Alvarado, Hannah Panov, Xiao Zhang, Seokyoung Yang, Martina Mattar, Claire Richards, Simone Bethancourt / Lighting: Zazie Ray-Trapido & Leonardo Pirondi / Music Composition: Toru Takemitsu (1962) / Sound Mixing: Aidan Reynolds / additional support CalArts

Montanha Mágica (Magic Mountain, 2024)
7 mins. 16mm transfered to digital. Brasil/USA
At the top of a magic mountain, under the shadow of a tree, a room destroyed by a heavy flood once lived forever. Based on a true story.
Screenings: 17717 Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (2024)

Director, Cinematographer, Editor,  Voice-Over: Valentina Rosset / Lighting & Camera Assistance: Ryan Bradford

Fim de Rodovia (End of Freeway,  2025) work in progress
Short-film. Digital. Brasil/USA
A young foreigner woman wanders at night looking for someone who appears in her dreams amidst the lost hidden spaces in the city of Los Angeles.

Writer, Director,  Editor, Co-Producer: Valentina Rosset / Cinematographer: Hannah Panov / Sound: Alessandro Sterccioni & Jean-Paul Jones / Producer: Jocelyn Zhao / Gaffer: Gabriella Mykal & Ryan Bradford / 1st AC: Xiao Zhang, Gabriella Mykal / Production Designer: Angelique Gross / Starring: Seokyoung Yang with Dulce Escobedo, Alix Blevins, Xiao Zhang, Luther Wang, Simone Bethancourt, Carissa Berger, Yuhan Wang


Dias (Days, 2022)
3 min. Super8mm transfered to digital. Brasil.
diary-film; driving, diving, looking, longing, long days, last days. watch here.

Screenings:  REDCAT Theater; Whammy! Analog Media, Los Angeles; Oca do Ibirapuera, São Paulo; ArtRio - MIRA videoarte (2022); A House Show, Los Angeles (2023)
 Director, Camera, Edit, Voice: Valentina Rosset / with friends Antonia, Luba, Bia

Um Breve Eterno Mergulho (A Quick Eternal Dive, 2021)
3min. 16mm transfered to digital. My first film in 16mm at CalArts. Made with found slide photos. Brasil/USA
Olivia dreams to be diving.

Director, Camera, Edit: Valentina Rosset / Camera Assistance: Seokyoung Yang, Hannah Panov / with Olivia Fogel

amor (love, 2021)
4mins. iPhone. Brasil.
 Between cars on foggy night and a horse with weak legs, a register of a strange feeling.
Screenings: Film Diary NYC; Oca do Ibirapuera, São Paulo (2022); mostra online de filmes na quarentena por Pena Capital (2021)

Camera, Edit: Valentina Rosset / Voice: Nehemiah Stark


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Additional Film/Video Work


Rio Santa Clara (Santa Clara River, 2024)
Video installation. Single-channel, 7mins on loop. Silent.
Derived from B&W footage shot for A Slippage in Five Movements, made for the exhibit Water Sound.

beauty salon art gallery, Los Angeles. May-June 2024.




Bitches Kill Bitches (2023) dir. Hannah Panov
 17min. Digital. Canada/USA
Cinematographer

Audrey’s first sleepover with the popular girls channels adolescent angst into a musical tale of dreamy feminine revenge.

Premiere Screening: Fantasia Film Festival, Montreal (2023)



Living Bridges (2023) music by Jason Oberman & Greg Lewis
Music video. 5min. Super8mm & 16mm transfered to digital.
Filmmaker, Editor