The Tuba Thieves

Name: The Tuba Thieves
Director: Alison O'Daniel
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Released: 2024-03-15
Rating: 8
Cast: Nyeisha Prince, Russell Harvard, Geovanny Marroquin, Warren Snipe, Norman Aaronson

Original title: The Tuba Thieves

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Synopsis

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.