Artist and filmmaker Alison O’Daniel will discuss her approach to her gallery and film work, focusing on her hybrid feature documentary, The Tuba Thieves, 2024. The film, which debuted at Sundance, questions the role of sound and the meaning of listening. O’Daniel uses a series of tuba thefts in Los Angeles high schools as a jumping-off point to explore these questions. She uses a mixture of fact, fiction, recreation and an emphatic use of closed captions are included in this remarkable film. 

The CCA Community is invited to join us for an early viewing of the film prior to the lecture on Monday, November 25th at 4pm in Timken Hall. 

About the Speaker:

Alison O’Daniel is a d/Deaf visual artist and filmmaker. Her film The Tuba Thieves premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast on Independent Lens on PBS and Arte in 2024. O’Daniel is a United States Artist 2022 Disability Futures Fellow and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video. Her artwork has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; Centro Centro, Madrid, Spain; Renaissance Society, Chicago; Art in General, New York; Centre d’art Contemporain Passerelle, Brest, France; Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia; Argos Center for Audiovisual Arts, Brussels and many other international museums and galleries. O’Daniel has received grants from Ford Foundation; Sundance; Creative Capital; Field of Vision; ITVS; Chicken & Egg; SFFILM. She has developed projects in various labs, including Points North; Sundance Talent Forum; True/False/Catapult Editing Lab, and has attended residencies at the Wexner Center Film/Video Studio Program; Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She was included in Filmmaker Magazine’s 2019 25 New Faces of Independent Film issue. She is represented by Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles and is an Associate Professor of Film at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.