Mackenzie Patrick Flynn (they/them) is a queer, nonbinary director, writer, and multimedia artist born and raised in the American South. A reformed Catholic and graduate of NYU Tisch’s Film & TV program, their work explores the psychological terrain of selfhood—mind, body, and spirit—through a distinctive blend of Southern Gothic surrealism, body horror, and spiritual excavation. They are drawn to stories that alchemize pain into light, reclaiming healing from repression and trauma.

Their films explore themes of identity, grief, and embodiment, often through the lens of dream logic, Jungian psychology, and the grotesque beauty of transformation. As a nonbinary artist, Mack's work confronts the dissonance between body and soul, interrogating how gender can be weaponized as a means of domination or erasure. Their affinity for body horror is deeply political, spiritual, and personal.

Their most recent short film, Blue, Like Green, is an elegy for healing. Written in the shadow of their father’s death, it interrogates the journey from repression toward wholeness and asks what it means to live beyond purgatory. Inspired by Buddhist teachings on the 49-day bardo, the film frames grief as a liminal passage—a threshold that beckons us back to ourselves.

Mackenzie approaches filmmaking through the lens of the spiral: form without end, always in motion. They are deeply community-driven and passionate about building collaborative, LGBTQIA+-centered creative spaces. Prior to NYU, they wrote, directed, and produced Arcana Six, a queer coming-of-age short starring Jamila Gray (On the Come Up), which has since garnered over 380k views on OML’s YouTube channel.