The Tuba Thieves

• Rated 8.0 out of 10
• Movie
• 2024
• 1h 32m
• Documentary
• Drama

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.

Director

Alison O'Daniel

Starring

Nyeisha Prince, Russell Harvard, Geovanny Marroquin, Warren Snipe