The Tuba Thieves
movie
View on VideBits →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 & crew
Geovanny Marroquin · Norman Aaronson · Nyeisha Prince · Russell Harvard · Warren Snipe · Alison O'Daniel
Studios & networks
Chicken & Egg Films · Creative Capital · Field of Vision · ITVS · JustFilms / Ford Foundation · Louverture Films