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Ingrid Ryberg (born 1976) is a Swedish feminist filmscholar, filmmaker and activist. Currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher, with a Ph. D. in Cinema Studies, Ryberg aims to link theory with practice. Her areas of interest include queer, feminist, and lesbian filmcultures and filmmaking; pornography; and reception and spectatorship studies that focus on the female viewer. Ryberg is part of the modern feminist porn movement, which simultaneously started to emerge on a bigger scale in the early 2000s both in the United States and in Europe, and she has contributed with new feminist scholarship on pornography.

Ryberg's research has been published in academic journals like Film International, Lambda Nordica, Frauen & Film, and Montage/AV, and in the recent anthology The Feminist Porn Book (ed. Taormino et al., 2013). She also writes for the Swedish film magazine FLM: En kulturtidskrift om film.

Ryberg's doctoral dissertation Imagining Safe Space: The Politics of Queer, Feminist and Lesbian Pornography (2012) is based on ethnographic fieldwork around the Pornfilmfestival Berlin and the members-only Club LASH in Stockholm, as well as on her own participation as one of the filmmakers in the Swedish feminist porn film collection Dirty Diaries. In her thesis Ryberg examines pornography as a transnational new wave of queer, feminist and lesbian activist film culture. Based on the three case studies, her work demonstrates the recurring discussions and conflicts within these different contexts. In an interview Ryberg states that, for the activists, pornography is a possible vehicle for liberation. Importantly there is a collective ambition to construct contexts of safe space for sexual exploration and making of pornographic films, especially given the stigma pornography carries with it.

Career
Ryberg co-directed the documentary DragKingdom of Sweden (2002) about Swedish transgender people and the current drag king scene. Starring six female-to-male drag kings, the documentary challenge preconceptions about lesbianism, gender, desire and identity. The interviews with the participants were made by Ryberg, who also attended a drag king workshop to try out make-up, poses and characterization. The documentary is the first Swedish film about drag kings, and it was shown on Swedish public service television (SVT) during Stockholm Pride in 2002.

Ryberg is the director of the lesbian short porn film Phone Fuck (Ryberg, 2009) for the Swedish feminist porn film collection Dirty Diaries: Twelve Shorts of Feminist Porn (Mia Engberg et al., 2009). The intention of the filmproject was to visualize and present feminist queer sexuality in new, alternative ways. Phone Fuck is about a former lesbian couple who has recently had a breakup. Still desiring each other, they end up having phone sex while talking dirty and imagining the presence of the other. The film's soundtrack features Fever Ray.

Ryberg was part of the nomination committee for the Swedish Film Institute's film award Guldbaggen (2011-2013). She sat in the jury for the queer film price Premio Maguey at Guadalajara International Film Festival (2013), and Swedens biggest documentary festival Tempo Documentary Award (2014).

Filmography

 * DragKingdom of Sweden (Åsa Ekman & Ingrid Ryberg, 2002, 50 min)


 * Var fick du luft ifrån? En utbildningsfilm om härskartekniker (2005)


 * Phone Fuck (2009, 7 min)