Now Instant is pleased to present a single-channel presentation of American Artist’s, Yannis Window, a series of artist moving image works that draw inspiration from science fiction author Octavia E. Butler’s (b. 1947, Pasadena, CA) novels and life, and the lives of other African-diasporic people who formed and were formed by the adjoining communities of Altadena and Pasadena, California, with a conversation between American Artist and Corina Copp.

The trilogy, consisting of The Arroyo Seco (2022), Christopher Donner (2024), and Alicia Catalina Godinez Leal (2024), takes the form of a 1990s public access documentary, a presidential campaign video, and news footage referring to the real and imagined environment of Altadena and characters from Octavia Butler's 1993 novel, Parable of the Sower.

Materials courtesy of the artists and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, Mexico City.

Credits:

Writer & Director, American Artist; Producer, Chester Toye; Director of Photography, Corey Gegner; First Assistant Camera, Celeste Barbosa; Key Grip, Danny Green; Gaffer, Kristin Steusloff; Editor, Bryan Monroe Simpson; Visual Effects, Jonathan Manni; Sound Mixer, Tomasso Pompei; Post-Production Sound Mixer, Andrew Siedenburg; Production Designer, Jesse Hoffman; Props Assistant, Haley Castro; Production Assistants, Ethan Duffy, Gabriela Freid, Marion Tannis; Production Manager, Rafaela Sanchez; Christopher Donner, Ajuma Rahmaan; Megan Reed, Anna Dennis; Alicia Leal, Alondra Sanchez; Guadalupe Leal, Carolina Rivera Escamilla; Uncle, Rafael Escamilla; Neighbor, Ayana Jamieson; Neighbor's Child, Mars Jamieson; Astronauts, Taylor Aldridge, Kibum Kim, Joel Ferree.

Please note: seating is limited. Box Office opens thirty minutes prior to the listed showtime. Online ticket sales will be honored up until 15 minutes after the scheduled showtime. In-store ticket purchases are subject to availability, first-come, first-served. We do not operate a standby list.