Chiara Barzini

Today we're sharing

highlights of our conversation with author and screenwriter Chiara Barzini.

She

has spent her life

Where the water went, who owned it, what they did with it became very much part of what I was becoming obsessed with.

My guest today, Chiara Barzini, has spent her life navigating the literal and cultural fault lines between Italy and California.

Today, we will discuss her book, A Story of Water and Lost Dreams, and her life as an artist living between two countries.

In her acclaimed 2017 novel, Things That Happened Before the Earthquake, she wrote about arriving in the San Fernando Valley just weeks after a catastrophic natural disaster and the illusions of the 90s.

In Aqua, she examines nature, the California water crisis, and the broken dreams of the Hollywood machine.

We talk about family, film, art as an act of faith, and our collective ecological coming of age, where the end of empire meets the end of abundance and the consequences of hypercapitalism and colonialism.

What does it mean to stare our illusions in the eye and find the courage to imagine a better future? Chiara Barzini, welcome to the Creative Process in One Planet podcast.

Thank you, Mia.

Where the water went, who owned it, what they did with it became very much part of what I was becoming obsessed with.

My guest today, Chiara Barzini, has spent her life navigating the literal and cultural fault lines between Italy and California.

Today, we will discuss her book Aqua: A Story of Water and Lost Dreams, and her life as an artist living between two countries.

In her acclaimed 2017 novel, Things That Happened Before the Earthquake, she wrote about arriving in the San Fernando Valley just weeks after a catastrophic natural disaster and the illusions of the '90s.

In Aqua, she examines nature, the California water crisis, and the broken dreams of the Hollywood machine.

We talk about family, film, art as an act of faith, and our collective ecological coming of age where the end of empire meets the end of abundance and the consequences of hypercapitalism and colonialism.

What does it mean to stare our illusions in the eye and find the courage to imagine a better future? Chiara Barzini, welcome to the Creative Process and One Planet podcast.

Thank you, Mia.

You know, one of the greatest cities that is absolutely at the mercy of its own nature, that's definitely Los Angeles.

So when I was living there as a teenager in those early 90s years, which inspired the memoir or the novel that's heavily memoiristic, I realized in hindsight what an impact that nature did have on my way of perceiving the city.

But when you're a teenager, you're sort of stuck in that moment of survival and you're not taking in all of the elements.

So high school was in and of itself such an adventure that I didn't really have time to absorb the rest of the story.

And that was something that I had a privilege of doing much later in life as a kind of reckoning.

And I had the advantage of being able to look at those from the point of view of someone who didn't really have anything You know, I was the daughter that was taken on to an absurd trip in the early 90s and sort of eradicated from Rome and thrown into the San Fernando Valley during earthquakes and riots and such a thriving and crazy time for the city.

But it wasn't my dream that was on the line.

I was only a teenager and my dreams were still very murky at the time.

Today we're sharing

highlights of our conversation with author and screenwriter Chiara Barzini.

She

has spent her life

Today we're sharing

highlights of our conversation with author and screenwriter Chiara Barzini.

She

has spent her life

Where the water went, who owned it, what they did with it became very much part of what I was becoming obsessed with.

My guest today, Chiara Barzini, has spent her life navigating the literal and cultural fault lines between Italy and California.

Today, we will discuss her book, A Story of Water and Lost Dreams, and her life as an artist living between two countries.

In her acclaimed 2017 novel, Things That Happened Before the Earthquake, she wrote about arriving in the San Fernando Valley just weeks after a catastrophic natural disaster and the illusions of the 90s.

In Aqua, she examines nature, the California water crisis, and the broken dreams of the Hollywood machine.

We talk about family, film, art as an act of faith, and our collective ecological coming of age, where the end of empire meets the end of abundance and the consequences of hypercapitalism and colonialism.

What does it mean to stare our illusions in the eye and find the courage to imagine a better future? Chiara Barzini, welcome to the Creative Process in One Planet podcast.

Thank you, Mia.

Today we're sharing

highlights of our conversation with author and screenwriter Chiara Barzini.

She

has spent her life