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.

Release Date : March 15, 2024

Runtime : 92m

Genre : Documentary, Drama  

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

Countries : United States of America

Keywords : sign languages, asl, experimental, deafness, deaf culture