CinemaOSMovie · 2024 · 1h 32m · NR

The Tuba Thieves

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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 byAlison O'Daniel

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Released
Runtime
1h 32m
Language
EN
Released
March 15, 2024
Studios
ITVSField of VisionFord Foundation / JustFilms

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Nyeisha Prince

Nyke

Russell Harvard

Russell Harvard

Nature Boy

Geovanny Marroquin

Geovanny

Warren Snipe

Warren Snipe

Arcey

Norman Aaronson

The Irritated Man

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Alison O'Daniel
Written by
Alison O'Daniel
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Alison O'Daniel
Elizabeth Skadden

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