Tottemo Production

Narrative Studio & Art-Driven Production House

We create stories that resist silence.

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We are a narrative studio and art-driven production house working at the intersection of fiction, documentary, performance, and artistic research. Our work emerges from lived realities and imaginative ruptures, told through film, theatre, installation, sound, and text. We train AI characters with stories, memories and moral architecture that offer companion, entertainment and guidence.

Through intimate stories and bold structural reflections, we expose the fault lines of society, question the logic of systems, and explore what it means to resist, transform, or simply endure.

Founded by director and writer Anna Maria Joakimsdottir-Hutri, Tottemo collaborates with artists, institutions, and co-producers to bring forward projects that carry both vulnerability and edge.

We offer narrative consultancy, direction, workshop facilitation, and cross-disciplinary project development. Our current focus lies in immersive formats, performative research, and hybrid storytelling.

Tottemo is expanding into the development of AI-driven characters shaped by story logic, moral architecture, and emotional resonance. We train narrative agents with complex backstories and ethically designed frameworks, intended not as passive NPCs, but as reflective presences capable of guiding, provoking, or supporting users within interactive environments. These characters may draw from memory, myth, or lived experience, offering companionship, challenge, or counsel.

We partner with technology developers and platform builders who seek narrative depth and artistic integrity in their AI systems, believing that fictional beings can be created not just to simulate, but to signify.

Productions

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RAN – Immersive installation

Set on the Swedish west coast in the 1760s, RAN tells the story of Anna, a young Finnish woman accused of infanticide. The narrative unfolds through court records, shifting testimonies, and subtle mythological echoes. RAN is a story about survival, justice, superstition, and the silence surrounding women’s experiences in history.

Blue dolphine

In the film I treated the subject of striving for your dreams. Of how easy it is to fall into the trap of stereotype roles when two artists builds a family. How a dream can become a nightmare when the beautiful house that artist couple moved to in the woods is in need of so much maintenance that they loose contact and never see eachother.

Expedition Undergång

I wanted to work with a comedy topic and started seeing an air balloon expedition. I recalled the tragic Andrée Polar Expedition from 1897 that was lost in the Arctic for 33 years and realised that this was a magnificent topic for comedy. As Woody Allen put it ”Comedy is tragedy plus time”. This was my third research into developing Artistic Collaborative Tools. This time the work group of 4 writer/actors had to work with documentary material.