A hunger for the human

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The Perfect Human tempts a formalist reading: that the human is perfect when, thanks to the camera’s intervention, it does not appear in the world. Yet Leth’s aim is not to confirm this modern ideal of human self-sufficiency; rather, he exiles the human on film to expose our hunger for the world.</jats:p>