The Tuba Thieves

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The Tuba Thieves

2023

1h 31m

Drama

Documentary

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From 2011 to 2013, tubas are stolen from Los Angeles high schools. This story isn't about thieves or missing tubas. Instead, it asks what it means to listen.

Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)

I like the ambition of this... I don't think it always works, but I like the idea of it.

Jun 8, 2024

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Wes Greene

Slant Magazine

Alison O’Daniel uses the real-life tuba thefts as a springboard to explore, and in artistically fertile ways, how the removal of an integral part of a structure affects the larger whole.

Rated: 3/4

Mar 9, 2024

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Josh Flanders

Chicago Reader

The Tuba Thieves, by Alison O’Daniel, is a groundbreaking work of art, a wonderfully different, beautiful film that showcases creative captioning and visual and audio poetry.

Feb 21, 2023

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

A very unique aural and visual experience

Apr 21, 2024

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

The Tuba Thieves has a misleading title and tries too hard to be an avant-garde documentary about deaf people. It's really a pretentious, disjointed, and tedious film that wants to fool people into thinking that it's got something important to say.

Apr 8, 2024

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Tina Kakadelis

Film Obsessive

[The Tuba Thieves is] an ode to music, life, and Los Angeles that must be heard to be understood.

Mar 17, 2024

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Alison O'Daniel

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Alison O'Daniel

Screenwriter

Alison O'Daniel

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Rachel Nederveld

Producer

Su Kim

Producer

Maya E. Rudolph

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Synopsis

From 2011 to 2013, tubas are stolen from Los Angeles high schools. This story isn't about thieves or missing tubas. Instead, it asks what it means to listen.

Director: Alison O'Daniel
Producer: Alison O'Daniel, Rachel Nederveld, Su Kim, Maya E. Rudolph
Screenwriter: Alison O'Daniel
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 31m