
Chiara Barzini
Writer and filmmaker whose book Aqua investigates the Los Angeles Aqueduct through travel writing, memoir and cultural history, exploring water, film and ecological limits.
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May 6, 2026 • 58min
Chiara Barzini & Olivia Laing: Aqua
Chiara Barzini, writer and filmmaker who investigates the Los Angeles Aqueduct, explores water, film and ecological limits. She weaves travel writing, memoir and cultural history. They discuss Los Angeles’s stolen water, ruined Californian landscapes, engineering hubris and how dreams and romanticism meet ecological endings.


