Valentina Rossetto

Biography

Valentina Rossetto is a historian and archivist specializing in film preservation and restoration. She works as film archivist at the Cineteca Nazionale in Rome, and as adjunct professor of Film Restoration in the MA program at the Italian Central Institute for the Restoration and Conservation of Archival and Library Heritage (ICPAL). Since 2024, she has been collaborating with the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Turin.

Prior to working at the Cineteca Nazionale, Rossetto was the film collection manager at the Archivio Nazionale Cinematografico della Resistenza, film archivist at the Museo Nazionale del Cinema, and a member of a two research projects at the University of Turin. 

Rossetto is the author of the chapters “Shooting” and “Projection” in Cinema muto italiano: tecnica e tecnologia (Carocci, Rome 2004), and of “La conservazione dei film” in the collected volume Preservare il cinema. Restauro e conservazione del patrimonio filmico (forthcoming, 2026). Her essays on film conservation and restoration have been published in scientific journals such as Kermes, Color Culture and Science, and Vibrational Spectroscopy, as well as in the Journal of Film Preservation (FIAF).