2008 ShortDocs Challenge: Radio Ephemera
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Forest to Desert
2008 / 02:35
2008 ShortDocs Winner! An audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert." Forest versus city / tree versus car / then versus now.
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The Searchers (Based on a True Story)
2008 / 03:06
2008 ShortDocs Winner! Where do lost stories go? Potato pancakes are involved.
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Sweetgum Handshake
2008 / 07:46
Here's a radio explanation of the Radio Ephemera ShortDocs Challenge, including descriptions from Rick and Megan Prelinger, of the books selected for the project.
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The Great Tree Strike of 1934
2008 / 03:00
A record of one of the most significant cultural events of New Zealand's forgotten history.
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Lucky Star
2008 / 02:55
When you are taking risks and you don't know it's risky, and pushing boundaries when you don't know they are boundaries, it's good to be lucky.
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Labor Pains
2008 / 03:00
Whether it's societal progress or a squiggly 11-pound miracle, getting there isn't always pretty.
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Control of Swimsuit and Mind
2008 / 03:00
Kathleen Goldhar was asked to go out and try on the latest in swimsuit technology: the LZR Racer, made by Speedo, which is VERY form-fitting, and VERY hard to get into.
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The Control of Teenagers
2008 / 02:41
The Control of Teenagers dances on the corpse of self-help publishing;
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Every Morning I Hear This Voice...
2008 / 03:00
A cultural detective searches out a singing stranger and in the process finds out how prayer affects a young man's life.
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Two Trailer Love Stories
2008 / 03:04
A young woman and a married couple look back on trailer-style good times.
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Cicatrix
2008 / 02:51
"Cicatrix" resonates in regenerative acts, resiliency, rootedness, and irreparably damaged nerves as it tries to imagine one woman's language of war.
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Matt and Bart Sleep in the Airstream
2008 / 02:43
A sketch comedy short in the style of my weekly radio show, which features my co-host Bart and me in zany situations.
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Summer Snow in Moscow
2008 / 03:00
Every summer it snows in Moscow -- because of sexually frustrated trees? What do you know about the sexuality of the poplar tree?
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The Woman in the Tree
2008 / 02:59
Here's a story along the theme of "ephemera" - things that were not built to be around for long.
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A Transgender Childhood
2008 / 03:03
Growing up isn't easy - when you feel as if your mind is one gender, and your body another.
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Trees for Economic and Social Justice
2008 / 02:52
This piece explores the connections between social justice, activism, and citizenship, and questions the best way to make the world a better place.
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In Order to Remember
2008 / 02:56
Stories, photos, tape . . . all ways of recording, of trying to preserve, that which is so ephemeral to begin with: our memories.
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Sending Books to Africa
2008 / 03:00
A surreal tale about book donations, whitefish salad, and trans-atlantic journeys.
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Misguided Meditation
2008 / 03:02
A guided meditation spoof for all those searching for enlightenment, but who don't know where to find it.
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Upon the Black Top Sea
2008 / 02:31
Joe escapes in his trailer alone but this time he has a visitor.
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Nerve Machine
2008 / 02:17
Assailed by doubts, fears and illusions on all sides, the warfare within our bodies is a silent one.
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Tree Body
2008 / 02:46
Three children talk of how trees are good control of body and mind, recite poetry about trees, call out tree names, and make all kinds of lovely unexpected connections.
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The Big Strike!
2008 / 02:57
When a venerable neighborhood tree is struck down its loss is felt by all the residents on the street, but sometimes nature has its reasons.
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The Subtle Tongue of Racism Remains Unbitten in a "Post-Racial" America
2008 / 02:58
How do Anglos think black people talk -- and how does that feel?
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Why Question the Facts?
2008 / 03:00
A tired teen talks in the second worst recording device he has.
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Restful, Shady Places
2008 / 03:00
The authors of Trailer Ahoy! and Trees as Good Citizens enjoy a written correspondence relating to their books' proximity in the library.
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A Large, Well-Rounded Head
2008 / 03:01
The strange journey of Walt Whitman's brain, both inside his head, and out.
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When Condos Travel
2008 / 02:48
This piece explores what happens when trailers want to stay put, but condos travel -- removing Austin residents and their beloved trees.
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Ad Absurdum
2008 / 02:58
A herd of marketing hits, cliches and platitudes, featuring a chorus of cats and two pounds of Velveeta.
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Birth, Birth, Rebirth
2008 / 03:00
As Tom recovers from a traumatic brain injury, he and his wife welcome newborn twins into the world.
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Invisible Greek Rain
2008 / 02:35
Every book seems to be a small universe, every title is like four "visible" percent of this universe.
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Feeling Small but Dreaming Big
2008 / 02:30
"Why we should not imagine a row of sheep at night and why is a coffee tree sometimes like a man?"
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That Close
2008 / 03:02
Montreal's Royal Park is the backdrop to a woman's memories and the place where she is most at home.
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Beyond the Tree Line
2008 / 03:01
A lesson on abstinence recorded in a makeshift recording hut in rural Wisconsin.
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The Haymarket Incident
2008 / 02:59
One teenager changes my perspective about a significant event in labor (and U.S.) history.
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Government! Hold My Hand . . .
2008 / 03:00
A satirical collision of Indiana history and standardized testing.
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A Now Famous Tree
2008 / 02:59
When spontaneous young sexual drives mingle in the shade of a tree, a unique and mysterious relationship is seeded.
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Misplaced Memories
2008 / 03:00
When you get rid of things, you never know what you are truly giving up, so keep everything.
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If It Hurts, You Breathe Faster
2008 / 03:00
Buffalo resident Kathy Mecca has been resisting a proposed expansion of the Peace Bridge that threatens to destroy residential homes, architecturally important buildings, and mature trees in a neighborhood that has higher than average rates of asthma.
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Trees Die for the Sins of Our Legislators
2008 / 02:44
Of cheeseburgers, the Reagans, Grant Park and, of course, trees.
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The Big Meeting
2008 / 02:09
Lorene decides to make real English marmalade for a meeting being held by striking maritime workers in her town.
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The Highway 57 Breakdown in Three-Part Harmony
2008 / 02:58
Busting out, breaking down, success, failure, positive thinking, and finding the right trailer hitch.
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Teen Mind
2008 / 02:55
We all should do some work on our brains, but that "work" can be a load of fun, oh yeah.
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Trees Have Full Control of Body and Mind and Are Thus Very Good Citizens
2008 / 02:26
A very comic and nervous Monty Python-type exploration of the life of a tree.
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I Would Like to Introduce You to My Mom
2008 / 02:59
This is an ode to my mother and to all the similarities between us that I'm learning to embrace with the help of Tommy James and the Shondells.
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Stork-Bird Brain
2008 / 03:00
A journey through the mind of heartache on an island that is really a peninsula.
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Are You Sure?
2008 / 03:00
A look at the age old dilemma -- the unexpected pregnancy, and a peek into how today's busy, independent woman approaches the unexpected news.
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The Good Citizen's Control of Body and Mind
2008 / 02:52
A mad professor attempts to bring a cadaver to life.
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Lady Bait
2008 / 02:57
Lizzie and her sister think they are coming to Ray's just to see his monkey, but little do they know that Ray and Oscar have been sweating to the Harvey Carne Workout Method and Guide to Romance.
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Harvey Carne Workout Method, Cassette 6
2008 / 02:32
Welcome to the Harvey Carne Workout Method and Guide to Romance.
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Good Luck Bestows Upon You. You Will Get What Your Heart Desires.
2008 / 02:39
Grandma Phyllis reads me her fortune.
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Family Tree
2008 / 03:00
Two families share very different reasons for planting a tree when their baby is born.
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Presenting the 2008 TCF ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
2008 / 01:22:48
For the 2008 TCF ShortDocs Challenge, the TCF joined forces with the Prelinger Library, a one-of-a-kind collection of books, periodicals, and more, running the gamut from the concrete and tangible to the abstract and etherized.
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Re:sound #85: The Dollar Storeys Show
2008 / 59:30
This hour: the wild and wonderful results of the Third Coast Festival's 2007 Audio Challenge: Dollar Storeys.