Leopoldo Bloom is an author and experimental filmmaker who self-publishes his writings in limited-edition artist books. Typeset by hand and letterpress printed, his writings focus on the interiority of the transgender experience over the span of three decades. His first memoir, How to Transition on Sixty-Three Cents a Day, is held in over two dozen special collections and museums. 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. Since the 1990s, his handmade films have focused on experimenting with the chemical makeup of photographic emulsion and alternative processing methods. His expanded cinema performance, the Big Film Series, was a series of film portraits shot and projected with original hand-cranked equipment from the early days of motion picture film technology. He has been employed as a lab tech at Kodak Advanced Materials and Manufacturing and various motion picture processing laboratories. His last position was as the Leon Levy film archivist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, where he had the opportunity to catalog and digitize rare films from their historical collection of wildlife films from the Bronx Zoo.
Recent Work
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Leopoldo Bloom 