The Tuba Thieves
MovieTitle | The Tuba Thieves |
User score | 8 |
Release date | Mar 15, 2024 |
Genre | Documentary, Drama |
Director | Alison O'Daniel |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | ITVS, Field of Vision, JustFilms / Ford Foundation, Chicken & Egg Films, Louverture Films, Creative Capital |
Run time | 92 min. |
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.