Nils Claesson is a Swedish artist, photographer, filmmaker and writer. He makes animated films and is an artistic researcher. In 2017, he received his doctorate at the Stockholm University of the Arts on the thesis Spökmaskinen: Seven changes and displacements – creative processes in animated film. "- Animated film is to open the door to another reality where different laws and rules prevail than the usual ones. Animating is a way of making the world comprehensible by taking it down into small parts and putting it back together.”