The Tuba Thieves (2024)

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.

Released March 15, 2024 92 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Drama

Keywords: imdb.school, imdb.deaf, imdb.heist, imdb.disability, imdb.los-angeles-california, imdb.concert, imdb.experimental-film + 7 more, tmdb.experimental, tmdb.deafness, tmdb.deaf-culture, tmdb.sign-languages, mdblist.has-trailer, mdblist.fresh, tmdb.american-sign-language-asl