The Tuba Thieves

NR 6.3
2024 1 hr 32 min Drama , Documentary

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.

  • Cast:
    Russell Harvard , Warren Snipe

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Reviews

Cubussoli
2024/03/15

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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Jeanskynebu
2024/03/16

the audience applauded

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HeadlinesExotic
2024/03/17

Boring

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Voxitype
2024/03/18

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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