Feature Film
SCREENINGS & PUBLIC CONVERSATIONS 2026
1–3 August Green Montenegro IFF
Official Selection ("Ecology of the Soul")
4 September Järvsö, Utefest
20 October Uppsala, Humanistiska Teatern
12–15 November Oxford, "Utopia Now" (Schwarzman Centre, t.b.d.)
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Written & Produced by
Bernhard Schirg
Associate Producer & Creative Development Consultant
Lars Larsson
Director of Photography
Martin Olson
First Assistant Camera
Theo Rosén
Composer
Thomas von Wachenfeldt
Story Consultant
Thomas Jackson
Directed by
Bernhard Schirg
A CINEMATIC ESSAY IN RESEARCH COMMUNICATION — 62 MIN
In 1675, Uppsala polymath Olof Rudbeck sent out an expedition to the north of Sweden. His students returned with drawings of antiquities, maps, and mountain panoramas. Four years later, Rudbeck published the findings as part of his Atlantica. The heavily illustrated work presented Sweden as the cradle of all mythology, of a high culture brought forth from lands of ice and snow.
Three centuries later, Bernhard Schirg, a scholar of Renaissance literature, sets out to Sweden’s north again, to lands which Rudbeck made resonate with our oldest myths. What wonders of nature had given rise to these stories, to the utopian visions of Atlantis or Elysium?
Accompanied by panorama expert and map enthusiast Lars Larsson, the men immerse themselves into landscapes from which Rudbeck wrote his Atlantica. Yet first cracks soon emerge in the picture once drawn from Sweden’s nature. What Rudbeck presented as the ever-stable foundation of his all-connecting work today tells a story of rapid change. It is this unravelling bond between nature and the stories of our place in it which leads towards a new quest – to find awe and wonder in the world we leave behind.
FRAMES FROM THE FILM

PRESS & MEDIA
29 May 2026, Östersunds-Posten: "De jagar svaret på urgammal gåta – i Jämtlandsfjällen" (by Marcus Berglund)
2 June 2026, Länstidningen Östersund : "Jakten på Atlantis i Jämtland" (by Jonathan Leijonberg)
3 June 2026, Radio Interview P4 (with Fredrik Alverland)
















