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. Blending documentary and fictionalized performances and set to an L.A. landscape/soundscape never quite seen before, this film explores a dimensional experience of deafness and reorients the audience auditorily in an unfamiliar and exhilarating way.
Director Biography
Alison O’Daniel is a visual artist and filmmaker who lives in California and is a United States Artist Disability Futures fellow and a Guggenheim fellow. She is d/Deaf/Hard of Hearing and her work has been in museums around the world. The Tuba Thieves (2023) is her debut feature.