The Tuba Thieves

The Tuba Thieves — Plot

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.

• Release date
• March 15, 2024
• Runtime
• 92 min
• Genres
• Documentary, Drama
• Director
• Alison O'Daniel

The Tuba Thieves — Cast

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Nyeisha Prince Nyke Russell Harvard Nature Boy

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Geovanny Marroquin Geovanny Warren Snipe Arcey

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Norman Aaronson The Irritated Man