Director: Alison O'Daniel
Cast: Nyeisha ‘Nyke’ Prince, Geovanny Marroquin, Russell Harvard, Warren ‘Wawa’ Snipe
2023 | USA | Experimental Documentary | 92 min | Asia Premiere
Screening Language: American Sign Language, English, Spanish
Subtitles: Japanese, English

In early November of 2011, tubas were stolen from a high school in Los Angeles. About a week later, tubas were stolen from a different high school. A month passed and tubas were stolen from yet another high school. This continued: twelve schools in Southern California had their tubas stolen between 2011 and 2013. When reporters told the story, they focused on the thieves and asked the same questions: Who is doing this? Why? What is happening to the tubas? They did not seem concerned about what a marching band would sound like without its lowest sound. They did not wonder what the tuba players were now doing in class. No one asked what happens when sound is stolen or lost, owned, or delegated. The "Tuba Thieves" is a film about listening, but not just with the ear.

Alison O'Daniel is a filmmaker and visual artist. She has screened and exhibited in galleries and museums internationally, including Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. O’Daniel is a 2022 United States Artist Disability Futures Fellow and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, receiving numerous grants. She was included in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film and writings on O’Daniel’s work have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Artforum, and other publications. She is an Assistant Professor of Film at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.