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The Tuba Thieves

Documentary, Drama | 2024-03-15 | United States of America

IMDB8.0 / 10

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Runtime92 min.

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.

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

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