(The Tuba Thieves)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Documentary,

Drama

Runtime:

92 minutes

Year:

2024

Directors:

Alison O'Daniel

Production companies:

ITVS,

Field of Vision,

Ford Foundation / JustFilms,

Chicken & Egg Films,

Louverture Films,

Creative Capital

Actors:

Nyke

Nature Boy

Geovanny

Arcey

The Irritated Man

Crews:

Consulting Producer

Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Producer