HALO ROSSETTI
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Hold
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Fruitr
YLIGML
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Wait
8 1/2 INCH DICK
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Home Depot
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Black-Eyed Susan
Evangeline Dupree
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Halo Rossetti (they/them) is a writer, director, performer, and artist, worldbuilding positive futures in the husk of the capitalist experiment. In their work, through the production of film, video, and performance, they practice worldbuilding as a means to convey their belief that decolonizing, queering, and regenerating are linked processes. Rossetti was Temple University's nominee for the Tribeca Film Institute/Sloan Discovery Student Award 2020, with their TV pilot, WELL.


Rossetti's short film, SUNRIDER, premiered at Les Femmes Underground International Film Festival in Phoenix, AZ in September 2018, and was featured at a MONO NO AWARE screening at Anthology Film Archives in New York in April 2018. SUNRIDER was also officially selected for Lift'Off's First-Time Filmmaker Sessions, September 2019. SUNRIDER was also part of the screening program for "SUPERHOST" at Like a Little Disaster in Polignano a Mare, Italy, from August 4th - October 15th, 2019. SUNRIDER was also officially selected for The Bush Films' Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Short Films screening on August 25th, 2020.


Rossetti's short film, The French Chef with Julia Child: Abortifacient Herbs, premiered and was a finalist in the Get Free Film Fest in Los Angeles, 2019, was officially selected for Planet 9 Film Fest in October, 2019, and was the featured video for Vox Populi's 4th Wall film and video program, September 6-October 13, 2019.


Rossetti's short film, Hold, has been officially selected for LesFlicks film festival in November 2019, and will be distributed via LesFlicks' Video on Demand distribution platform. Rossetti's short films, Hold and Wait, were screened as part of "Positive Futures," co-curated by Rossetti and Loraine Wible, at Vox Populi in May 2019. Six of Rossetti's short films were aired in an anthology called "HOW TO FOOD" on PhillyCAM in April 2019.


Rossetti's short films, Kiwi Time! and Lemon Nipple were officially selected for the Hacker Porn Film Festival in Rome, Italy, April 24-30, 2020. Kiwi Time! premiered at Temple University's Diamond Screen Film Festival on 4.30.19. Lemon Nipple premiered at Temple University's "Diamond Screen: Women's Fest" on March 13, 2019. Rossetti's short film, Fruitr, premiered at Temple University's "Diamond Screen: DiamondQ LGBTQ+ Film Festival" on October 7, 2019. Rossetti's short film, Valentine's Day After, premiered at Temple University's "Diamond Screen: Women's Fest" on March 18, 2020.


Rossetti's artwork has been shown in New York, Tehran, Talinn, Oslo, Mexico City (as part of the collective Silvershed), and in the regional US. They have performed all over NYC and Brooklyn, and premiered original work at Dixon Place Theater. Their work has been featured in "EMERGENCY INDEX." They have taught, curated, guest-critiqued, and performed at BHQFU. They are a former artist-in-residence at The Shandaken Project and at the Prattsville Art Center and Residency. They have been interviewed in Adult Mag, GO Magazine, and The Temple News, and have contributed writing to HuffPost, HuffPost Queer Voices, The Establishment, Luna Luna Mag, RENDER, artforum.com, The Brooklyn Rail, and The American Reader, as well as various artist catalogues. Rossetti was on ArtCritical's Review Panel in 2013, gave an artist's talk at Parsons in 2015, and will be on a panel about queer filmmaking at The College of New Jersey in November 2020. Rossetti currently teaches media arts and screenwriting at Temple University.