The Tuba Thieves (2024)
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.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
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| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 2.4542 |
Directed By
Alison O'Daniel
Crew
Rachel Nederveld
Wendy Ettinger
Maida Brankman
Jolene Mendes
Eliza Moley
Alysa Nahmias
Alison O'Daniel
Elizabeth Skadden
Derek Howard
Judy Phu
Meena Singh
Zack Khalil
Su Kim
Maya Rudolph
Sally Jo Fifer
Lois Vossen
Michael Kinomoto
Nial Morgan
Alison O'Daniel
Alison O'Daniel
Alison O'Daniel
Christine Sun Kim
Ethan Frederick Greene
Steve Roden
TOP CAST
Nyeisha Prince
Nyke
Russell Harvard
Nature Boy
Geovanny Marroquin
Geovanny
Warren Snipe
Arcey
Norman Aaronson
The Irritated Man
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