Heavily influenced by the camera trickery of early movie-masters such as Alice Guy and Buster Keaton, Kerstin uses cinema as a means to address the ambiguous tension between delight and melancholy, or magic and reality. She travels extensively to shoot very ordinary things. She has collaborated with metal-smiths, weavers, clothing designers, honey vendors, musicians and visual artists to create site-specific installations. She builds her own movie sets and often employs her children as actors, cinematographers and sketch artists.