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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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.

A Dream play

I admire Strindberg’s inner cosmos in what must be one of the earliest post-modern pieces of drama. I used the classic’s strong feministic voice and adapted the play to take place in present day Helsinki. I wanted to challenge the limit of how far I could take the story to feel completely contemporary without loosing the beautiful structure of themes in the original.

The Sacrifice

The cermony was my final thesis at the Art University theatre academy’s Directing department. I wanted to research the border between the real and the magical as well as the dramatic character and stripped down present self.