The Tuba Thieves

The Tuba Thieves

Released on
Documentary, Drama
Runtime
92 mins
(1 votes)

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.

Cast

  • Nyeisha Prince
  • Russell Harvard
  • Geovanny Marroquin
  • Warren Snipe

Director

  • Alison O'Daniel

Producers

  • Rachel Nederveld
  • Alison O'Daniel
  • Elizabeth Skadden
  • Su Kim
  • Maya Rudolph

Screenwriter

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