The Bitcoin Car

Set in a northern coastal village – the life of small-scale goat farmer Gloria is on collision course with the megalomaniac death wish of 18 year old crypto investor Rita. Little brother Lukas comes home for the summer, to shockingly find a colossal bitcoin mining center located on top of the cemetery, where their parents used to be buried. Fish start to float ashore, and there is a mysterious issue with the power cables supplying the center. After baby goat Klamydia is found dead in the forest behind the church, the siblings team up with Colombian-Finnish electrician Viljami to find out what’s going on inside the mine.

  • Trygve Luktvasslimo
    Director
    The Vegan Toothbrush, Clay Pigeon, Closer to More, An Emotional Sherpa
  • Trygve Luktvasslimo
    Writer
    The Vegan Toothbrush, Clay Pigeon, Closer to More, An Emotional Sherpa
  • Trygve Luktvasslimo
    Producer
  • Anze Persin
    Producer
  • Sunniva Birkeland Johansen
    Key Cast
    "Gloria"
  • Zoe Winther-Hansen
    Key Cast
    "Rita"
  • Espen Beranek Holm
    Key Cast
    "Iris"
  • England Brooks
    Key Cast
    "Nikki"
  • Henrik Paus
    Key Cast
    "Lukas"
  • Johannes Winther Farstad
    Key Cast
    "Viljami Karjalainen"
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Genres:
    Comedy, Musical
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 34 minutes 5 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 10, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    500,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Norway
  • Country of Filming:
    Norway
  • Language:
    English, Estonian, Finnish, Latin, Norwegian
  • Shooting Format:
    Arri and Red
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.39:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Festspillene i Nord-Norge / Arctic Arts Festival
    Harstad
    Norway
    June 26, 2023
    World premiere
    Festival Profile of the Year
Distribution Information
  • Lukt AS
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
  • Altibox
    Distributor
    Country: Norway
    Rights: Video on Demand, Paid TV
  • Altibox
    Distributor
    Country: Denmark
    Rights: Video on Demand, Paid TV
  • Festspillene i Nord-Norge
    Distributor
    Country: Norway
    Rights: Theatrical
Director Biography - Trygve Luktvasslimo

Trygve Luktvasslimo is a filmmaker based since 2016 in Valberg, Northern Norway. Luktvasslimo has a master's degree in Fine Arts from Lund University (Malmö Art Academy) in 2006, with exchange to Edinburgh College of Arts. After studying, he lived and worked for six years in Berlin and four years in Lisbon, where he established a close collaboration with production company Stenar Projects and worked with actress Suzana Borges on two films. He had artist residencies at Cité des Arts in Paris and Kunstnernes Hus Oslo. His work has been shown internationally, in visual arts and film contexts like Glasgow Museum of Modern Art (UK), Oslo kunstforening (Norway), Tromsø International Film Festival (Norway), Inversia Festival Murmansk (Russia), KUIR Bogotá (Colombia), Moonah Arts Centre (AUS/Tasmania), Barents Spektakel (Norway). The Vegan Toothbrush (37 min 2019) was produced for Lofoten International Arts Festival and is available to a Norwegian public though the National Library collection. The film won award for Best Music Score (by Gunnar Idenstam) at Annual Copenhagen Film Festival and Best Producer at International Moving Film Festival, it was screened as part of the University of Bergen's annual international conference on Sustainability Development Goals and at Columbia University.

The Bitcoin Car is Luktvasslimo's debut feature film.

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Director Statement

My recent fiction explores the perspective of the geographical periphery on global or existential themes, and in my feature film debut I wanted to look at the blooming industry of data centers in remote areas like Arctic Norway. Up here, green, hydro-powered energy is moving from being an abundant resource into becoming scarce and pricy because of bitcoin mining and other electricity mega-consumers/mega-wasters.