Bradbaori is a short film and worldbuilding installation that takes the form of a meditative allegory on climate resilience during an unprecedented drought in Los Angeles.
runtime: 6 minutes
Film screener, Installation specs & exhibitable artifacts available upon request
Film screener, Installation specs & exhibitable artifacts available upon request
Bradbaori reimagines Los Angeles’s historic Bradbury Building as a monumental stepwell to adapt to a near-future drought in the city. The Bradbury Building, one of Los Angeles’s most recognizable cinematic landmarks, has appeared across generations of film and television as a symbol of noir, futurism, and urban imagination. Bradbaori transforms this familiar icon of cinema into a new form of climate infrastructure. Drawing from the baoris of South Asia, ancient civic structures designed to collect, store, and distribute water, the project converts the Bradbury’s central atrium into a vertical water commons. As storm clouds arrive to break a historic drought, the stewards of the structure gather within the atrium to perform a choreographed ritual that welcomes and receives water into the building. Part civic ceremony and part contemporary rain dance, the performance transforms the atrium into a space where collective survival, ritual, and infrastructure converge.