15.12.24 - 01.02.25

RESIDENCY: Trygve Luktvasslimo

Trygve Luktvasslimo (b. 1978) is a Norwegian filmmaker and visual artist living in Lofoten.

On his residency at Velferden in the winter of 2024-2025, Trygve will write his new film script, Snekkersprekken, a troubled love story between a tax evader and a war defector, again with the rural village as the epicenter when the past catches up with them.

Photo © Sindre Husebø

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Trygve takes the district's perspective on global and existential themes as a starting point. For example, the short story film Shallow Water Blackout from 2019, about the luxury cruise ship The World sailing past Lofoten with two climate revolutionary youths who intend to sink the ship to the bottom of the ocean, with all the adults on board. Or Mulighetsperleporten (2021), a radio play about life and death with an opportunistic, northern Norwegian suburban mayor, a kindergarten baroness and a board wholesaler in the center. His first feature film The Bitcoin Car (2023) is a musical about a goat farmer in the small village of Valberg, who has had a huge bitcoin mine placed in the middle of the cemetery.