Half Life

Journey into the Blackness of the Night

Michael Ackerman

A world in which emotion rules reason may not necessarily be an ideal world, but many of its more profound elements – longing, solitude, love, despair – certainly partake of the sublime. Such a world is shown in Half Life: images that strike a visually addicting balance between documentary and metaphysical concerns; human life expressed rather than merely recorded; artistic representation rejecting a conventional use of facts and a clear sense of time. Ackerman’s visual narratives, accumulated during years of travel and edited to cinematic perfection, are mementoes that purposely undermine the present. Karl Johnson