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The Tuba Thieves
Directed by
Alison O'Daniel
Not Rated
2023
1h 32m
Documentary
,
Drama
6.2
90%
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From 2011 to 2013, tubas were stolen from Los Angeles high schools. This is not a story about thieves or missing tubas. Instead, it asks what it means to listen.
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Cast of The Tuba Thieves
Nyeisha Prince
Nyke
Russell Harvard
Nature Boy
Geovanny Marroquin
Geovanny
Warren Snipe
Arcey
Norman Aaronson
The Irritated Man
Alison O'Daniel
Director / Writer
Rachel Nederveld
Producer
Alison O'Daniel
Producer
Elizabeth Skadden
Producer
Su Kim
Producer
Maya Rudolph
Producer
The Tuba Thieves Ratings & Reviews
FilmWeek (LAist)
Christy Lemire
I like the ambition of this... I don't think it always works, but I like the idea of it.
Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)
Marya E. Gates
A very unique aural and visual experience
Culture Mix
Carla Hay
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.
Film Obsessive
Tina Kakadelis
[The Tuba Thieves is] an ode to music, life, and Los Angeles that must be heard to be understood.
AWFJ.org
Rachel West
Part visual essay, part documentary, and part city symphony, The Tuba Thieves uses its captioning to great effect, s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g out the notes of a tuba and incorporating them into the story in a way that heightens the film's impact.
In Review Online
Jesse Catherine Webber
As an encapsulation of the film, we have an accessible example of the holistic reproduction of the portrayal of sound, image, and touch.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
...puts you on the outside, listening in.
Slant Magazine
Wes Greene
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.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
A bold, immersive and unconventional, but tedious documentary.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It might disappoint those looking for something more transparent about the thefts.
World Socialist Web Site
David Walsh
All in all, The Tuba Thieves too rambles aimlessly, hoping apparently that it will stumble by accident on important truths about sound, music and listening. Genuine insight does not emerge by accident.
Chicago Reader
Josh Flanders
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.
Filmmaker Magazine
Vadim Rizov
Its originality of conception on multiple levels and baseline excellence in technical execution are clearly a cut above.
Vox
Alissa Wilkinson
Blending fiction and nonfiction, O'Daniel's film evokes life for both the deaf and the hearing during the years of the disappearances... reminding the viewer of the vitality of sound and silence, of absence and lack.
POV Magazine
Pat Mullen
The film is an uncategorizable work that draws upon elements of documentary, narrative filmmaking, essay films, and city symphony movies.
The Film Stage
John Fink
A rich visual and auditory project that's probably best experienced in an acoustically perfect environment.
IndieWire
Susannah Gruder
O'Daniel brings to life a synesthetic space in which plants whisper and hum to each other, where the air above a forest fire vibrates and where one man's ASL sign for "sunrise" is infinitely more expressive than the English word alone.
Truthdig
Siddhant Adlakha
By its nature both radical and frustrating. Its approach to cinematic language is entirely at odds with how one might even interpret an on-screen "story." The result isn't just hearing in new ways, but truly listening to what's being said.
Sunshine State Cineplex
Alan French
Director Allison O'Daniel creates an experience unlike any in recent memory while exploring experimental uses of sound and communication.
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