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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| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 2.974 |
Directed By
Alison O'Daniel
Crew
Alysa Nahmias
Alison O'Daniel
Wendy Ettinger
Maida Brankman
Elizabeth Skadden
Eliza Moley
Jolene Mendes
Rachel Nederveld
Meena Singh
Derek Howard
Judy Phu
Maya Rudolph
Zack Khalil
Su Kim
Michael Kinomoto
Sally Jo Fifer
Lois Vossen
Nial Morgan
Alison O'Daniel
Alison O'Daniel
Ethan Frederick Greene
Steve Roden
Alison O'Daniel
Christine Sun Kim
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