Dylan Record
MFA ’26 Film/Video
My filmmaking typically uses ritual, farce, and stylized narrative to reflect on relationships, physical, emotional, and metaphysical, and the ways people seek meaning through connection. My work has a gothic American sensibility, blending folklore with distinctly American motifs. Iām interested in how belief systems are created, performed, and passed down, especially in our current, hyper-connected world.
My thesis film, A Day Away, further explores these themes, as it relates to technological superstition. The film is a series of animated vignettes that follow an ensemble of characters, and uses indirect, intuitive storytelling. By directly engaging with entertainment, each character indirectly shapes their relationships with everyone and everything around them. A Day Away considers filmmaking itself as a quasi-spiritual medium able to conjure traces of unseen worlds, and an effective modern magic in which belief and understanding are endlessly intertwined.
Dylan Record (b. 2000) is a filmmaker and musician from Indiana. He earned a BFA in Communications: Film at the University of Saint Francis and is currently pursuing an MFA in Film/Video at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, with an expected graduation in Spring 2026. His film Christmas Glory was selected for the Lift-Off Global Network’s Hollywood First-Time Filmmaker Showcase and received the Audience Choice Award in 2023.ā Dylan currently lives in Boston, MA where he continues to make films and music.
