The Tuba Thieves
The Tuba Thieves
Release: 2024-03-15
·Runtime: 92m
·★ 8.0
Documentary
Drama
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
ITVS
Field of Vision
JustFilms / Ford Foundation
Chicken & Egg Films
Louverture Films
Creative Capital
