2006 ShortDocs Challenge: 99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story
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'Til Death Do Us Part
2006 / 02:30
2006 ShortDocs Winner! Producer Sasha Aslanian's divorced parents listen to audio of their 1963 wedding vows, remember what went wrong, but still can't get over each other.
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Au Debut
2006 / 02:30
2006 ShortDocs Winner! Translation -- Sylvain, Bruno, Zoe, and Youssef at the PRIM Centre in Montreal, summer 2006.
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Talk to Me About Love
2006 / 02:30
2006 ShortDocs Winner! Two curious siblings finally get what they think they've always wanted.
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Sold 'Em Way Up High at 1200 (INC)
2006 / 02:21
Melds the incredible auctioneering skills of Dan Skeels, the 2004 World Livestock Auctioneering Champion, with the electronic sounds of Nick Freilich, aka Epicte the Elemental.
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The First Attraction
2006 / 02:31
The myth of Narcissus reimagined: the north pole of a magnet bar falls tragically in love with the north pole of another magnet bar.
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Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
2006 / 02:34
A radio producer deals with a case of 'broadcaster's block' by asking the question "What would Johnny do?"
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I Don't Know. I Know.
2006 / 02:39
To begin, restating rules is used to avoid actually following rules, just as this more-than-one-sentence description avoids the request for a single sentence through the misuse of the semi-colon; later, mundane answering machine messages become menacing, as the producer manipulates their meaning with music.
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Respectacle
2006 / 02:30
Children in a behavior program speak up about respect, against the metaphorical soundscape of the Institution.
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I Like the Way You Talk
2006 / 02:31
Baglama begins and ends chopped interviews with seniors about love and death and music.
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Stupidity Realized
2006 / 02:30
Drummer relates previous evening's adventures with keyboard-playing brother.
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They Didn't Get Along
2006 / 02:30
An inquiry into the nature of human relationships over the course of eons, featuring musical accompaniment in diverse time signatures, and a British narrator.
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The Yakuza Codes
2006 / 02:32
Will Midori and her brother Yoshitoro overcome their antipathies and meet again?
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Train Wars
2006 / 02:30
Jayne Fenton Keane talks with India's former Socialist Defence Minister, Mr. George Fernandes, and former President of the Socialist Party of India, Ms. Jaya Jaitley, about the Railway Strikes of 1975 that brought down Sonia Ghandi's government.
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And I Think There Is Something There That Will Stand the Rain
2006 / 01:59
A woman remembers the most important person in her life.
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Where My Ears Have Been
2006 / 02:30
Composed from sounds recorded during a residency at the National Science and Technology Museum, Taiwan, this is a story about communication.
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The Gulf
2006 / 02:30
How can we make sense of the communication and resource problems identified long before Hurricane Katrina that led to such tragic consequences for many residents of New Orleans?
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This Was a Crucial Place
2006 / 03:04
A former inmate (John McCullough), a former guard (Donald Vaughn) and Steve Buscemi guide the listener through 1960's prison reform via the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA.
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Reality Depends on Where You're Standing
2006 / 0
Three inner-city sisters randomly discuss their reality, intercut with the perceived reality of the country's distant puppet masters.
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Levitating Stone
2006 / 02:31
In a small village in India, a 90 KG stone levitates when the name of sufi saint Qamar Ali Dervish is chanted.
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Natalie, Alone, in New York
2006 / 02:31
A woman tries to come to terms with a breakup and a package of bacon.
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Shaq + Kobe (Time Is Running Out)
2006 / 02:30
This piece retells (and remixes) the NBA soap opera of Shaq + Kobe in an audio cartoon created with the on-the-court assistance of the talented Kevin Smith and amplified by music from Shaquille O'Neal, sampled game sounds, and press conference audio clips taken wildly and egregiously out of context.
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Zelda vs Ernest
2006 / 02:30
A virtual verbal boxing match between literature's leading man of men and feisty feminist flapper Zelda Fitzgerald.
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Liberals (With Thomas Frank and Rush Limbaugh)
2006 / 02:30
As the story continues, we finally learn that conservatives share some sort of nostalgia with liberals.
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A Bug in the Works
2006 / 02:33
Found tape diary of a family holiday recorded for Grandma and Grandpa; a six-legged intruder spoils the fun.
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Personal Message: No Commercial Value
2006 / 02:31
Sinister entertainment with a tape recorder: a found message left for a girlfriend degenerates into drunken squabbling over a reading of a Burn's poem.
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Looking at Topsy
2006 / 02:30
A radio story about a movie by Thomas Edison that is very hard to watch.
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School Mothers
2006 / 02:31
While their daughters play on the school playground, two women become acquainted and share tales of sex and marriage gone awry.
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Oakiedale Train
2006 / 02:30
An historic train puts on the grease paint and starts serving murder mysteries.
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99 Fluffys
2006 / 02:30
Fluffy is a mysterious creature surrounded by bees and sweets but confronted by a hysterical mechanical animal which initially causes some angst in the surreal world of imagined adventures of Fluffy.
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Icing Adversity
2006 / 02:30
The story of how the Canadian Women's hockey team overcame the odds and poor officiating to win the gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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Both My Houses (Ma Maison En Deux)
2006 / 02:30
You live in media you watch and listen to. I live in France, listen in Britain and dream outside.
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Canned Love
2006 / 02:30
A fawning profile of Charles Baker and Audrey Malone, the greatest voice talents of our generation.
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Evolution
2006 / 02:31
In a piece that captures the history of (aural) technology, text-to-speech engines prove that computers really can befuddle man.
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Do What You Fear and Fear Disappears
2006 / 02:30
Screams, thoughts on fear, screams, spooky music, more screams.
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Henry Ford Wouldn't Have Called in Sick
2006 / 02:30
Feuding co-workers in an auto parts factory conpsire to assemble the big one.
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Computer Drama
2006 / 02:28
The computer talk show meets Saturday morning cartoons; featuring real live computer expert, Sarah Millen.
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Eagle 202
2006 / 02:32
The true story of Chris, who thought it would be a fun intellectual challenge to try to write a piece of air traffic control software his company had abandoned -- and what happened next.
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Perfect Founders
2006 / 02:30
The duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton rearranged for laughs and life lessons.
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The Mime
2006 / 02:50
The sounds of Turkish pop star Tarkan melds with possibly the most annoying roommate ever.
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The Long Way Home
2006 / 02:30
New light on the wanderings of Odysseus provided by the discovery of Penelope's answering machine tape.
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Bring on Jesus!
2006 / 02:31
Superstition, money, rules, bullshit, loud guitars, talking Moses and Jesus, and Santa!
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The Cat and the Boyfriend (INC)
2006 / 03:02
Through diary entries, the relationship between a cat and the new, live-in boyfriend is revealed.
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And Plenty of Others Never Got Along
2006 / 02:00
A whisper of memory to transcend the frame of context and the boundary of plot.
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Strictly Vegetarian, or, Something Happened During That Trip to Malacca, Malaysia
2006 / 02:32
She is now pregnant!
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Hearing Things
2006 / 02:31
A narrator tackles disembodied voices; admitting she seeks out the strange while actual Electronic Voice Phenomenon reverberates in a surreal background.
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The Dwayne Split
2006 / 02:30
The answering machine traps a surprising revelation from an "old friend."
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Sound and Territory
2006 / 02:30
Apartment sounds reveal a roommate crisis, the unwanted sharing of a territory.
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Dancing
2006 / 02:31
You have to ask someone to dance with you, and you have to accept when they ask you to dance.
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Deep-Fried Gravy
2006 / 02:31
Mabel and Dexter prove that one can experience culture clash and true love simultaneously.
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Ligeti Was in My Apartment
2006 / 02:32
What happened when Ligeti's ghost helped me create a sound piece.
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Time for Change
2006 / 02:31
Boston Common + drum + activist + drunken panhandler = police intervention.
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Dust Bowl Revisited
2006 / 02:28
Woody Guthrie backs up an interview with a Virginia National Guard soldier at an American base in Mosul, Iraq during early 2005.
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Big Bang
2006 / 02:30
Two lousy-sounding atoms can't get along, cause the Big Bang, and disrupt present-day international harmony.
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Trouble in Vietnam
2006 / 02:32
Robert McNamara, the Soviet Ambassador and President Lyndon Johnson face off in a historical remix.
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Charlie: Boston's Freedom Fighter
2006 / 02:30
A call for the folk hero of a 1948 protest song to rise up against the misuse of his name, which is being slathered across the very thing he fought against.
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The Big Cookoff
2006 / 02:31
Each year, the football teams from the U of California and Stanford U. play in The Big Game; now for the first time, they meet in the arena of cooking in The Big Cookoff.
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Accident Avalanche
2006 / 02:30
It's an Eastern Romance action-surrealist film, but He and She, they didn't get along so well.
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Sister Christy
2006 / 02:30
A brother reflects on his turbulent relationship with sister after hearing a phone message.
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Presenting the 2006 TCF ShortDocs: 99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story
2006 / 01:21:14
For the 2006 ShortDocs Challenge, the Third Coast was inspired by and collaborated with cartoonist and illustrator Matt Madden.
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I'd Like to Straighten You Out
2006 / 02:30
A musician, a living legend, attracts pilgrims, then gives them trouble.
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Re:sound #38: The Games Show
2006 / 59:01
This hour: tongue twisters, brain teasers, cheaters, and one of the worst high school football teams of all time.