Re:sound #227 The 2016 ShortDocs Show — Radio Cinema
This hour we're featuring some of our favourite entries to the 2016 ShortDocs Challenge!
2016 / TCF / WBEZ 91.5, USA
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This hour we're featuring some of our favourite entries to the 2016 ShortDocs Challenge!
Including interviews with producers and a visit to our 2016 partner, Manual Cinema, who are adapting this year’s winning ShortDocs into a live shadow puppetry performance.
Maya Turns 26
by Maya Goldberg-Safir
Whether she likes it or not, things are about to change.
Out of Order
by La Cosa Preziosa
A man & his TV crime drama-induced phobia.
ragazzo incontra ragazzo
by Garrett Kling
A chance encounter brings together an American and Italian boy, not knowing when they'll ever meet again.
Too Many Miles *
by Stephanie Rowden & Jennifer Metsker
What if Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” were re-imagined as a film?
Swimmers
by Michelle Macklem
A woman pieces together sonic memories and her sense of belonging through swimming.
The Hadal Zone
by Peregrine Andrews & Geoff Marsh
Two obnoxious city boys take the Giant Squid Safari in the Sea of Japan and end up in deep trouble.
What Is It Like?
by Tree Mabry
A look at invisibility, silhouettes, and humanity through a kaleidoscope.
Dear Face at Deer Lake with Deer People *
by the Dear Deer Face Collective
A story about deer, a wonderful lake, internet privacy.
HATCH * by Geoff McQueen
A man, in orbit, going round and round...
Hard-Boiled Poet
by Regina Botros
This hard-boiled poet cracks another case wide open.
I dream of rattlesnakes **
by Todd, Sam & Belle Wemmer
A contemplation on the return of rattlesnakes to Massachusetts.
*= Winner
**= People’s Choice Award Winner
Music for this episode was composed by Matthew Bourne for his album moogmemory
This episode of Re:sound was produced by Dennis Funk
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Maya Goldberg-Safir (@mayags)(she/her) has led Third Coast alongside Co-Director Emily Kennedy since September of 2021.
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La Cosa Preziosa (Susanna Caprara) is a sound artist originally from the south of Italy and based in Dublin.
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Garrett Kling (@garrettkling) is an interdisciplinary artist in audio, dance, writing and photography.
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Stephanie Rowden’s work in sound encompasses projects for installation, public art, radio documentary and performance.
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Jennifer Metsker is a poet and writer who lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Most recently her poetry can be found in Nightblock, Really System, Banango Street and Rhino.
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Michelle Macklem (@michmacklem) (she/her) is a sound designer, mix engineer and artist.
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Peregrine Andrews (@pezzatronic) is a sound designer, sound mixer and radio producer based in the UK.
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Geoff Marsh is a science writer and radio producer from London.
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Tree Mabry is an aspiring radio producer and the creator of the Endless Reverberations podcast.
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Dear Deer Face Collective live and work in nature. They are very private but do good work. Antlers get radio waves.
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Geoff McQueen is an independent radio producer, presenter and lecturer based in the UK. In an ideal world, Geoff makes beautifully composed features for BBC Radio 4 and constantly puts up new shelves for his Prix Italias and Sony Awards. In reality, Geoff is often disappointed.
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Regina Botros is an Australian radio maker.
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Sam Wemmer loves to catch creatures (frogs, lizards, snakes, squid, crabs, flounder, lobster, sculpin, lump fish).
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Belle Wemmer likes pigs and hawks.
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Todd Wemmer is a professor at Endicott College. He and his family live in Salem, MA. They sometimes make little audio pieces about nature and memory at thesoundmachine.org.
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Dennis Funk was formerly Third Coast's senior producer.