Director’s statement: 

While I was studying at the school of engineering I was deeply fascinated by the term "quasi-static", referring to processes that take place at an extremely slow rate whilst maintaining equilibrium. It wasn't until I listened to Ligeti's "Atmospheres" featured in Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" that I truly felt how art deconstructs and adapts its form from such terms, retaining the elements that best suit the art piece and its perspective. The cafe scene from Louis Malle's "Le Feu Follet" is an unquestionable source of inspiration for the film as it displays the internal static experienced moments before Alain, a former alcoholic, breaks sobriety.

I later on came to realise that all those influences shaped what came to be "Kelsey", a title derived from the famous artist model in the 1920s and 1930s Marguerite Kelsey who was famous for her ability to hold a pose for a long time. The film is a portrait of internal static, moments before an anticipated meeting, an experience that vividly survives throughout many of my personal memories. It's a translation of the collective of these memories through the language of cinema.