The Tuba Thieves
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.
Directed by Alison O'Daniel · Written by Alison O'Daniel
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Cast
- Nyeisha Prince Nyke
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Russell Harvard Nature Boy - Geovanny Marroquin Geovanny
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Warren Snipe Arcey - Norman Aaronson The Irritated Man
Make it a double feature
1h 52m together
The Tuba Thieves
The Silent Child
A close match in mood and era.
