Two of the Mexican theater’s most influential provocateurs—award-winning playwright Alejandro Ricaño and celebrated director Martín Acosta—lead a binational cast and creative team in this world premiere co-production set against the disquieting backdrop of the Mexican drug wars and volatile U.S.-Mexico border politics.

What do a luxury automobile, a wall clock, and a cymbal have in common? Daniel Eisenberg’s latest film, The Unstable Object (2011) is an elegant and visually sensual essay on contemporary models of production that quietly probes the relationships our global economy creates among individuals around the world.

The Los Angeles new music high-fliers meet up with the godfather of techno Morton Subotnick for a live revisit to the electronic music pioneer’s iconic works, rendered with new technology. Subotnick performs landmark works with the E.A.R. Unit—collaborators since 1980—in an evening of “spontaneous performance and decision-making.”

Poet, essayist and filmmaker Abigail Child sees her creations as a curious and particular intersection, often humorous, sometimes alchemical, between sound and image. Bodies, fetishes, symbols, icons and relics are reinvented and refitted to new realities and new desires. Child’s film cycle, Is This What You Were Born For (1981–89), is a landmark of contemporary avant-garde cinema.