The Bitcoin Car

THE BITCOIN CAR is a musical adventure in which a young goat farmer on a small coastal village finds herself on collision course with the megalomaniac death wish of a young crypto investor. After her brother comes home for the summer, she has to explain that she’s partially responsible for the gold plated bitcoin mining facility located on top of the cemetery where their parents are buried because she accepted a lot of money in order to pimp out – and gold plate - her old Toyota. However, now unexplained natural disturbances have begun to occur. When her baby goat Klamydia is found dead and turned completely white, the siblings team up with an electrician and a priest to find out what’s going on inside the crypto mine before everyone is put in danger.

  • 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 Title (Original Language):
    Bitcoinbilen
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Genres:
    Comedy, Musical, Bizarre, dark comedy, environmental, Grief, Low Budget, Music, Nature, Outdoors, Satire, Supernatural, Surreal, Magic realism, Absurd, Science and technology
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 34 minutes 5 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 15, 2023
  • 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
  • Nordkapp filmfestival / North Cape Film Festival
    Honningsvåg
    Norway
    September 15, 2023
    Official selection
  • Slamdance Film Festival
    Park CITY, UTAH
    United States
    January 20, 2024
    International Premiere
    Narrative Features - official selection
  • Bodø Film Festival
    Bodø
    Norway
    November 17, 2023
Distribution Information
  • Lukt AS
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Trygve Luktvasslimo

Trygve Luktvasslimo is an artist and 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 changing status from an abundant resource to becoming scarce and pricy because of bitcoin mining and other electricity mega-consumers/mega-wasters.