Novelist Filmmaker Mo Ogrodnik on the Interdisciplinary Creative Process

How can travel research, interviews, images, personal and national archives, sounds, music, and film techniques inspire our artistic process and ways of knowing?

Please join us for a conversation with filmmaker, writer, and NYU professor, Mo Ogrodnik, about her inter-disciplinary approach to research and making that informs her work across artistic mediums.

While living in Abu Dhabi, Ogrodnik traveled to the Philippines and Ethiopia, where she documented her findings through photographs and oral interviews that later informed scenes, character psychology, and specifics of place featured in her recent text-image piece for the Paris Review and her debut novel, GULF (released in May by Simon & Schuster).

Ogrodnik’s experience offers a roadmap for artists of any discipline seeking immersive experiences to inform their work, illuminating the importance of inquiry, curiosity and proximity in the development of contemporary narrative.