re:assemblage collective

THE BIG FILM SERIES: 1083, Brian, Huh, Mattilda, Stom, Susannah, Self-Portrait, Twoness, Willa

Directed by Leopold Bloom (Lee Krist)
USA · 1999-2011 · 19'00

A collection of nine 35mm hand-processed film portraits, shot using an early motion picture hand-cranked camera. The Big Film Series was first exhibited as an expanded cinema series reminiscent of the dawn of cinema. In these performative film screenings, Leopoldo Bloom creates an intimate screening experience by operating a hand-cranked projector among the audience rather than anonymously from an isolated projection booth. While working as a motion picture processing technician at Colorlab, Bloom was able to produce restoration prints of the camera originals in this collection, enabling the portraits to be screened at 24 frames per second.

Leopoldo Bloom is an experimental filmmaker whose installation, performance, and book work is held in over two dozen special collections and museums. His first book How to Transition on Sixty-Three Cents a Day is a memoir made up of thirty-one unbound postcards and seven pieces of ephemera housed in a metal film. His current work The Migratory Patterns of North American Queers at the Turn of the Century uses the obsolete format of the family photo album to allow readers to chronicle their lives through the lens of migration, instead of birth and marriage. https://leopoldobloom.org/