Arts
Catherine Wagley




SOUND OF SILENCE



A hearing-impaired artist uses the story of L.A. tuba thieves to ask: What happens when sound goes missing?



T here are no tubas in artist Alison O’Daniel’s in-progress film The Tuba Thieves — at least none you see in full. You occasionally get glimpses of mostly shrouded instruments, as in the first scene, when two culprits leave a high school in dead of night, carrying unwieldy objects in black bags. "It was fascinating that the thieves wouldn’t take the cases,” O’Daniel says of the real-life burglars who were the basis for the film. They began their tuba-taking rash in 2011, hitting schools from Manhattan Beach to South Gate. "I think it was just easier for them not to.”



After L.A. Times reporter Sam Quinones wrote a story exposing tuba thefts in ... Читать дальше »