A hunger for the human

Naomi Beeman

doi:10.1386/sfs.5.2.153_1

ISSN: 2042-7824
E-ISSN: 2042-7832

A hunger for the human
By Naomi Beeman¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Kansas City Art Institute
Source: Short Film Studies, Volume 5, Issue 2, Oct 2015, p. 153 - 156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/sfs.5.2.153_1
Language: English
- Published online: 01 Oct 2015

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Abstract

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.

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Keyword(s): absence; abstraction; embodiment; formalism; self-presence; world

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