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 would create 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 lab 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.
