I am a writer, director, performer, and artist, worldbuilding positive futures in the husk of the capitalist experiment. In my work, through the production of film scripts, play texts, films, videos, and performances, I practice worldbuilding—constructing a fictional world or universe, a key task of many science fiction and fantasy writers—as a means to convey my belief that decolonizing, queering, and regenerating are linked processes.

I want to imagine a future in which I, and my comrades, could thrive while being neurodivergent, queer, dis/abled, people of color, historically under-resourced, and so on. I also want to imagine a future in which the overculture’s relationship to our planet is no longer one of resource domination and extraction, but rather one of interconnection and ecological regeneration. To me, these two concepts—to exist in our fullness, and to approach nature and future with a giving hand—are inseparable. I am also interested in the decolonization and liberation of modern technology, which so often is created to serve the capitalist machine that will be our undoing. In my future, nature and technology fuse, and humans are able to enter into an empathetic, symbiotic relationship with the machines and AIs that we have borne.

To that end, my recent short film Sunrider, which premiered at Les Femmes Underground International Film Festival in Phoenix, AZ in 2018, offers a window into “Planet Femme,” my multi-modal speculative fiction world, which currently spans performance, film, video, prose, photography, cartography, and a roleplaying game in development. In Planet Femme, liberated AIs run a system of terraformed asteroid earthships (asteroids that have been transformed to support human and earth life), where humanity’s survivors live in a world of femme futurity and empathetic technology. With the earthship Aurora as its center, I imagine a world in which humans live a regenerative lifeway atop a series of asteroids in deep space, reclaiming many historical practices of food and material cultivation and distribution. It is my hope that Planet Femme can serve as a vehicle for us to reimagine our path to a life-connected future here on earth.

Chloé Rossetti is currently pursuing their MFA in Film and Media Arts at Temple University. Their 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. Their short film, Lemon Nipple, was screened at Temple University's Diamond Screen: Women's Fest, in March 2019, and their short film, Kiwi Time!, was screened at Temple University's Diamond Screen in April 2019. Their short films, Hold, and Wait, were screened at "Positive Futures" at Vox Populi in May 2019.

Chloé's artwork has been shown in New York, Tehran, Talinn, Oslo, Mexico City, 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. They have been interviewed in Adult Mag, 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.