The Tuba Thieves (2024)
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.
Genres: Documentary, Drama
Keywords: imdb.school, imdb.deaf, imdb.heist, imdb.disability, imdb.los-angeles-california, imdb.concert, imdb.experimental-film + 6 more, tmdb.asl, tmdb.experimental, tmdb.deafness, tmdb.deaf-culture, tmdb.sign-languages, mdblist.has-trailer
Production companies: Louverture Films, ITVS, Field of Vision, Chicken & Egg Pictures, JustFilms / Ford FoundationCreative Capital
Country: United States
Languages:
English