Services
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Expressive Tools for Storytelling, Emotion, and Transformation
With a special focus on collaborative Artistic Research.
At Tottemo Production, we offer a range of services that centre on the embodied, emotional, and narrative dimensions of knowledge. We work at the intersection of art and research — developing methods, formats, and artistic strategies that allow difficult, tacit or layered phenomena to be expressed, represented, and experienced.
Our services are especially relevant for researchers, institutions, and innovation industries seeking to expand their methodology through Artistic Research, or looking to integrate performative, narrative, or audiovisual components into larger research environments.
We believe that stories are not only told — they are lived, staged, drawn, and sensed. Our methods draw from theatre, film, performance and design to activate the emotional undercurrents of a theme or inquiry for the purpose of outreach into a wider audience.
What You Get
Direction & Narrative Conceptualization
We shape artistic works from idea to execution — be it film, installation, or staged performance. We support research-based projects in defining their narrative form, aesthetic vocabulary, and affective tone.
Scriptwriting & Dramaturgical Consulting
We develop scripts and offer dramaturgical insight for film, performance, and research-oriented productions. Our focus is on structure, subjectivity, and the ethical tension between form and content.
Artistic Research & Co-Creation
We engage in long-term collaborations with universities, doctoral candidates, and cross-disciplinary research teams — as co-researchers, facilitators, and artists.
Visualisation & Design Collaboration
We work with illustrators, visual designers and scenographers to translate complex or affectively charged research themes into immersive formats — story-worlds, installations, visual dramaturgies.
Workshops & Knowledge Labs
We facilitate workshops and co-creative processes tailored to research contexts. Topics include: Fiction as method, Artistic Research and performativity, Affect, narrative, and embodied critique & Artistic autonomy within institutional frames
AI Character Development & Narrative Training
We design and train AI-driven characters with rich backstories, emotional logic, and ethical depth. These characters are shaped to act as moral agents, guides, or challengers in interactive environments, offering users more than simulation: a layered, story-based encounter with presence, memory, and meaning.
Who We Work With
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- Researchers and doctoral candidates in the arts, humanities, and social sciences
- Artistic research centres and universities
- Public sector organisations with innovation or transformation goals
- Independent artists and interdisciplinary collectives
- Institutions seeking emotionally engaging ways to disseminate research
Seeking collaborations
We welcome conversations with:
- Researchers interested in artistic co-creation or dissemination
- Cultural institutions looking for bold and hybrid narrative formats
- Public bodies working with care ethics, historical justice, or civic dialogue
- Funding Partners, Producers, curators, publishers and designers interested in transmedia storytelling
We contribute:
- Narrative and performative methodologies
- Immersive and affect-based forms of dissemination
- Visual and fictional strategies for non-verbal knowledge
Example of Research Collaboration between Art and Science, a short film project: ”Who Stands Up for Alvar” (18 min)
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One example is the short film Who Stands Up for Alvar (2024), developed in close collaboration with researchers from Lund University, University of Gothenburg, and Södertörn University. The project focused on moral stress and ethical agency in eldercare.
Based on real case studies, we transformed research material into a cinematic drama where characters embody structural dilemmas rather than moral binaries. The result is an 18-minute fictional film that portrays the lived consequences of systemic failures in public care, without simplifying or accusing.
The film has been screened across municipalities, universities, and political forums, functioning as a catalyst for discussions between politicians, researchers, social workers, and students. It exemplifies how film and fiction can serve as tools of dissemination, reflection, and negotiation within a research process.
“I don’t see film or theatre as mirrors of reality, but as participants in its negotiation.”
Read more about the film here:
- Who Stands Up for Alvar – T-Port (Password: annamariafilms)
- Variety article on award at Karlovy Vary
- Konstfilmens kraft: Nyskapande sätt att använda forskning för social förändring
