Dylan Leavitt is the Coordinator of Film & Video at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has won awards for her filmmaking from the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, most recently having received the James Joseph Kaplan '02 Filmmaker of the Year award for "Vintage Revenge", a short, part-animated documentary about an eccentric vintage clothing store owner in Cambridge, MA. The film was inspired by her writing at Antiques Roadshow Online as well as her love for all things vintage.
Leavitt has held several positions in film, media, and art, including screening for the Telluride Film Festival. Her installation, "An Aggressive Art: Early Caricature and Self Parody in France and England" this October at the Hood Museum of Art brought a fresh, and humorous, eye to the Hood permanent collection. Some of her objects were recently featured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine.
She graduated cum laude and earned a high honors degree in Film and Media Studies from Dartmouth College. In addition to her fascination with convergence culture and new media, she also has a strong interest in Japanese culture and film and has extensively researched Japanese fashion theory and industry in the 1980s, with particular emphasis on Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo.
Leavitt currently has two independent film projects in development and initial production.
Leavitt currently has two independent film projects in development and initial production.
