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Trailer | The Tuba Thieves

Preview: Season 25 Episode 17 | 30s  | Video has closed captioning.

What is the role of sound and what does it mean to listen? Hard of hearing filmmaker Alison O’Daniel uses a series of tuba thefts in Los Angeles high schools as a jumping-off point to explore these questions. Through several d/Deaf people telling stories in a unique game of telephone, the central mystery of The Tuba Thieves isn’t about theft of instruments; it’s about the nature of sound itself.

Aired: 05/20/24

Rating: NR

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Reinventing Cinematic Language

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Reinventing Cinematic Language

d/Deaf filmmaker Alison O'Daniel talks about how her experimental documentary The Tuba Thieves shows how listening can become a form of storytelling and new ways of playing with film and captioning for Hearing and hard-of-hearing audiences alike.

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