The Tuba Thieves

8|2024|1h 32m| EN

Overview: A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time feature director Alison O’Daniel presents the impact of these crimes from an unexpected angle. The film unfolds mimicking a game of telephone, where sound’s feeble transmissibility is proven as the story bends and weaves to human interpretation and miscommunication. The result is a stunning contribution to cinematic language. O’Daniel has developed a syntax of deafness that offers a complex, overlaid, surprising new texture, which offers a dimensional experience of deafness and reorients the audience auditorily in an unfamiliar and exhilarating way.

Genres: Documentary, Drama

Director: Alison O'Daniel

Votes: 1

Production Companies:

ITVS

Field of Vision

JustFilms / Ford Foundation

Chicken & Egg Films

Louverture Films

Creative Capital