The Perfect Human

Overview

Inspired by Jørgen Leth’s cult classic The Perfect Human (1968) which raises many simple yet philosophical questions about who the perfect human is, what it means to be human, or perfect, The Perfect Human applies unsupervised machine learning and experimental filmmaking techniques to re-examine and question the contested notion of perfection in the eyes of artificial intelligence. The remake of computer-generated moving images are transformed from digital to an analog artifact of transparencies which completes the cycles from analog film to digital video and back to 16mm, from motion pictures to still images, and then latent-space interpolation, from a proxy of human memories to a machine learning construct.