

The read
Critics rate it 26 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
Critics rate it 26 points higher than audiences do.
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Alison O'DanielDirector
- Alison O'DanielWriter
- Christine Sun KimOriginal Music Composer
- Ethan Frederick GreeneOriginal Music Composer
- Steve RodenOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Nyeisha PrinceNyke
- Russell HarvardNature Boy
- Geovanny MarroquinGeovanny
- Warren SnipeArcey
- Norman AaronsonThe Irritated Man