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Tobias Rydin

Tobias Rydin is a director and screenwriter.  His debut feature film, Kim, is an 81 minute long character portrait about tape, Bdsm and consent and takes place in an art sculpture made of 3000 meters of tape. The film was nominated for a Guldbagge for best ­costume. (Swedens most prestigious film award.)

The film was described by Nöjesguiden as a Swedish indie gem and acclaimed critic and feminist Linda Skugge paid tribute to the female main character “as a treasure inside the tape” and described the film as one of the most beautiful films she had seen in a long time.

The film was distributed by Njuta films, previewed at the Stockholm Pride Festival and has since then toured festivals around the world. The film also won best female actor and best movie at Fetisch film ­festival Kiel.

Tobias Rydin has also made several short films in the alternative kink world that has been shown at festivals around the world. 

Tobias Rydin is the founder of the international art magazine YKKY. The magazine was chosen by The Independent as one of the eight most beautiful magazines in the world. In the magazine he published works by Annika von Hausswolff, Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto), Ryoji Ikeda and Arvo Pärt.

He debuted as an author in 2007 with the novel “The Invisibility”. The novel received very positive reviews and was described by critics as a “remarkable and fascinating debut” and a “cult book”.