The Spring 2024 Graduate Art guest lecture series, organized by Jack Bankowsky

EILEEN: The Movie | William Oldroyd in conversation with Ottessa Moshfegh and Luke Goebel

This event is free & open to the public. RSVP’s are not required.

See the full Spring 2024 Seminar schedule here.

William Oldroyd worked as a theatre director for ten years before his first short film, BEST, won the Sundance London Short Film Competition (2013). His debut feature film, LADY MACBETH, starring Florence Pugh and Naomi Ackie, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival (2016) and was nominated for three BAFTAs, an Independent Film Spirit Award and the European Film Academy prize for best debut feature, which it won. His second film, EILEEN, starring Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway was an adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel. It premiered at Sundance 2023 before its wide cinematic release courtesy of NEON and Focus/Universal.

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer, essayist, and screenwriter from Massachusetts. The author of five novels, including Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation, as well as a collection of short stories, Homesick for Another World, she lives in Pasadena with her husband and screenwriting partner, Luke Goebel, and their four dogs.

Luke B. Goebel is an author and screenwriter. His first book, Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, won the Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize. His second novel, KILL DICK, is forthcoming this year from Archway Editions. He earned his MFA at the University of Massachusetts: Amherst and, while a student, helped launch Tyrant Books with the late Giancarlo DiTrapano; Goebel served as co-editor of The New York Tyrant until its final issue. Together with Moshfegh, he founded Omniscient Productions, co-wrote the Oscar-nominated film Causeway (2022), and co-wrote and produced the adaptation of Moshfegh's PEN/Hemingway award-winning novel Eileen, the subject of this evening's conversation.

Image credits: Photograph of Luke Goebel by Jaxson Whittington. Photograph of Ottessa Moshfegh by Andrew Casey. Photograph of William Oldroyd Courtesy of writer.

The Graduate Art Seminar is a forum for graduate students and members of the ArtCenter community to enter into dialog with internationally recognized artists, critics, and art historians. The Seminar is a core component of ArtCenter's Graduate Art program. The Seminar is also free and open to the public.

ArtCenter's Graduate Art program is based on intensive studio practice and rigorous academic coursework. The program is distinguished by its low faculty-to-student ratio, which provides students with the attention and feedback they need to refine and achieve their artistic goals. Faculty and students are artists working in all genres of film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. A significant number of alumni have achieved national and international acclaim and often return to share their insights and expertise as visiting faculty and guest lecturers.