2007 ShortDocs Challenge: Dollar Storeys
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Stiff Peaks
2007 / 03:03
2007 ShortDocs Winner! The first step in making cookies is to purchase a metal bike jingle-bell in a western mountain town.
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The Trap
2007 / 03:02
2007 ShortDocs Winner! Here's a rumination on the ethics of pest killing and attempts at avoidance of the graphic nature thereof.
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How to Be Heard
2007 / 02:57
2007 ShortDocs Winner! Advice for the bicycle bell with aspirations, featuring voice teacher Rachel Nicholson.
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Dollar Daze
2007 / 03:20
Third Coast Festival artistic director Julie Shapiro describes her rendez-vous with Dollar Store founder Jonathan Messinger at Dollar Daze in downtown Chicago, where the Dollar Storeys items were chosen.
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The Golden Mug Award
2007 / 02:30
The coveted golden mug award is given to an actor or actress for their portrayal of an independent woman in history.
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Musings Over Coffee
2007 / 02:37
Half commentary, half documentary, the inscription on this coffee mug took me back to old memories.
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The New Pleasant Revolution
2007 / 02:47
A bike messenger provides alternatives to horrible traffic horns.
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Avant Guardian
2007 / 03:00
The Avant Guardian fights crime using the power of surrealism and his trusty P.S.M.G.
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Thrifty Liquidators
2007 / 02:14
In addition to writing lyrically ABOUT the wonders of the dollar store phenomenon...
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Chinese Pants
2007 / 03:00
An unscripted talk between a mom and her almost teenaged daughter, inspired by a handmade Mother's Day card listing all the things a mother should never do.
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I Thought I'd Be Rewarded for My Dating Gumption
2007 / 03:00
You think you're being mature and courageous, trait which will surely be rewarded with reciprocal sentiments of love...right?
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Mini-Meta-Mouse-umentary
2007 / 03:00
Mousetraps and other intersections between human beings and mice.
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Latin Mass
2007 / 03:00
Long before the women's movement even had a name, some Oak Park girls began questioning tradition without even knowing they were doing so.
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Mousetrap
2007 / 02:35
Both brief reflection on mousetraps and a nod to Wallace Stevens.
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The Irresistible Draw of the Dollar Store
2007 / 02:38
A dollar store addict is confronted with a horrifying discovery among the aisles.
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A Time to Tip
2007 / 02:58
The courageous story of one coffee mug trying to get by in a house of people he hates. (Writing from the perspective of the mug in the first person, present tense.)
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Miss Cholita Pageant
2007 / 02:55
The "Miss Cholita" pageant celebrates a female ideal that is fast disappearing among Bolivian indigenous women. This year, the pageant was shaken by a scandal: the winner had turned out to have been wearing fake braids.
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Can't Catch Us All
2007 / 02:31
What mice find offensive is the fact that these traps are not only lethal, but also cheap, low quality imports. (Don't mess with the mice.)
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House Trap
2007 / 02:44
"The best-laid plans of mice and men go oft awry"- Rober Burns, To a Mouse [The mousetrap set recalls a long-forgotten incident in the producer's first residence in Toronto.]
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American Dream
2007 / 02:36
The mice have invaded and are having some R and R... so I might as well help them enjoy themselves.
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Mouse Trap Music
2007 / 03:00
Composer Mark Applebaum describes the creative process he uses when inventing new instruments. He calls one of them "The Mouse Trap."
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Life Plays On
2007 / 03:10
An insecure boy discovers, through a saying on a mug, that there is more going on in the lives of others than meets the eye.
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You Make My Heart Go
2007 / 03:00
A meandering train of thought arrives at a Dollar Storey connnection just in time.
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A Tail of Two Mice, or, Dry Sponge Cake
2007 / 02:59
The love between two mice turns soar with a lacl of cheese whip and an encounter with a time warp mousetrap.
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I'm Alive
2007 / 01:03
A bell realizes it's alive while on a conveyor belt and then en route to a dollar store.
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I Was a Preteen Nightmare
2007 / 03:03
A well-intentioned yet horribly misinformed adolescent makes a monumental miscalculation of both form and judgment.
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Caryll and Sidney: An Unlikely Love Story
2007 / 02:59
Catholic mystic falls for the Ace of Spies in post-World War 1 London.
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Unless We Showed Up in Hazmat Suits
2007 / 03:00
If Lucy met her best friend in person, her life expectancy would be cut in half.
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Ring It Loud
2007 / 02:56
A tender portrait of the sofly spoken environmental campaigner and former world champion cyclist Judith Sanderson, who 20 years ago smashed 5 middle distance records in her sport.
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Bells
2007 / 03:00
A guy drifts back to the years he drove around on his bike, when he should be meditating.
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The Horrible Truth About Indie Ice Cream
2007 / 02:43
An investigation into why an ice cream truck was driving down my street at 9:30 PM.
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The Silent Work of Ordinary People
2007 / 03:03
An extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary worker.
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The Wishing Bell
2007 / 03:17
A brother and sister fight over the gifts they receive from their father.
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Tintinnabulation (Florence, Italy)
2007 / 03:00
Florence is a city filled with bells: church bells, hand bells, door bells, bike bells . . .
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The Mousetrap
2007 / 02:57
This is a highly fictionalized retelling of a real life tale of the trapping and killing of a mouse in Fresno, California.
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An American Tail
2007 / 02:32
Cats and mice, peace and war, Russia and the USA -- do you still believe in these oppositions?
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Well Behaved Women (RUS)
2007 / 02:41
All women buy things that they don't really need. Why are they doing this?
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Invasion
2007 / 03:00
One mother's attempt to fight off an invasion of mice just after her two-year-old son has been diagnosed with leukemia.
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Tea for Matilda
2007 / 03:00
Feminist historian Sally Roesch Wagner muses that well-behaved women rarely make history while mis-behaved radicals, such as 19th century women's rights and peace activist Matilda Joslyn Gage, seldom make history books.
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My Bike Had a Burger Bell: A Tragic Tale of Loss and Woe
2007 / 03:00
This is a true story about bike commuting, theft and making the best of a bad situation.
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Lapsed Trappist
2007 / 03:00
The gripping tale of a troubled Buddhist as he struggles with morals and mice in this short radio fiction based rather loosely on a true story.
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Thrown
2007 / 02:59
A fourteen-year-old girl tries to throw her voice and ends up getting thrown herself.
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Actionwomen
2007 / 02:46
Audio montage featuring the voices of women protesters and a service man remembering life in the 1980s at Greenham Common, England, a miitary base for American nuclear missiles.
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The Mousetrap Enthusiasts
2007 / 03:00
My brother and I thought the greatest Christmas gift we ever gave each other were mousetrap stocking stuffers . . .
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Daisy Chaining
2007 / 02:54
A daughter and her father argue about the relative merits of his vocation.
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Bike Bell Bandito
2007 / 02:58
A short tale of youth and nostalgia, bringing back past memories of the notorious nerve racking bike bell that we loved -- and mom hated!
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Frenchie Movie
2007 / 02:59
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main . . . any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne (1572-1631)
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Mugs With Messages
2007 / 03:37
The thoughts of a creative woman of valor, who might never make history.
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Instant Coffee
2007 / 03:00
A son remembers a woman who loved instant coffee and who may or may not have enjoyed being a housewife.
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How to Cheat on Your Wife
2007 / 02:57
A short, poetic instruction manual for the man who wishes to philander or have an extra-marital affair, but doesn't know where to begin.
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Feisty Mama
2007 / 02:44
A daughter finds an old picture of her mother and sees her mother differently.
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Little Voices, Far Far Away
2007 / 03:03
Context is a bitch -- just ask mice. On earth they're seen as pests and carriers of disease, but space is another story altogether.
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The Angel and the Mourning Cloak
2007 / 03:00
Chance encounters on an April morning show it's the little things in life that can make all the difference.
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Elizabeth's Mug
2007 / 02:57
Elizabeth sits at her kitchen table, contemplating a recent coworker's gift and wrestling with the advice it gives her.
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Learning to Ride
2007 / 03:10
A love affair with a motorcycle and an education without training wheels.
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An Orchestra of Bicycles
2007 / 03:00
Richard Lerman reflects on Travelon Gamelon, a piece he wrote in 1970 for amplified bicycles.
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The Assassin's Bell
2007 / 03:04
A young Soviet 'Pioneer' (i.e. boy scout) squares off with the CIA -- will he live to tell the tale?
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Presenting the 2007 TCF ShortDocs: Dollar Storeys
2007 / 57:27
For the 2007 ShortDocs Challenge, the Third Coast was inspired by and collaborated with the Dollar Store Show - a regular reading and performance series in Chicago.