The Tuba Thieves

Alison O’Daniel is a d/Deaf visual artist and filmmaker and builds a visual, aural, and haptic vocabulary in her work that reveals (or proposes) a politics of sound that exceeds the ear. O’Daniel is the director of The Tuba Thieves, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2023. She is a United States Artist Disability Futures Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. O’Daniel has also received grants from Ford Foundation; Sundance; Creative Capital; Field of Vision; ITVS; Chicken & Egg; SFFILM. She is represented by Commonwealth and Council Gallery in Los Angeles and is the Suraj Israni Endowed Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts in the Visual Arts department at University of California, San Diego.

Pablo de Ocampo is Director and Curator of Moving Image at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From 2014 to 2020, de Ocampo was Exhibitions Curator at the artist-run center Western Front in Vancouver, Canada. His previous positions include Artistic Director of Toronto’s Images Festival from 2006 to 2014, co-founder/collective member of Cinema Project in Portland, Oregon, and in 2013 programmer of the 59th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar History is What’s Happening, and is currently the President of the Board of Trustees for the Flaherty Seminar. His writing has appeared in Canadian Art, C Magazine, BlackFlash, and in the catalogues Wendelien van Oldenborgh: unset on-set (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo), Dissident Lines: Lis Rhodes (Nottingham Contemporary), and Low Relief: Lucy Raven (EMPAC, Mousse, and Portikus).