The Tuba Thieves

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 15, 2024

Original language

English

Countries

United States of America

Production

Louverture Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,Field of Vision,ITVS,Chicken & Egg Pictures,Creative Capital,Chicken & Egg Films,ITVS, Field of Vision, JustFilms / Ford Foundation, Chicken & Egg Films, Louverture Films, Creative Capital

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt7741736