The Tuba Thieves

• Movies
• 2024-03-15
• EN
• Released
• 2h 32m
• US
• Documentary - Drama

• 8.0
• 1
• Trailer

Production

ITVS, Field of Vision, JustFilms / Ford Foundation, Chicken & Egg Films, Louverture Films, Creative Capital

Storyline

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.