
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.
Nyeisha Prince
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Russell Harvard
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Geovanny Marroquin
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Warren Snipe
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Norman Aaronson
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Escargots
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The Dog and The Fountain
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Rift
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The River Wild
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Ferrum
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Velociraptor
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The Tribe
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