2010 ShortDocs Challenge: Book Odds
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All You Need is a Wall - 1
2010 / 03:00
Grace De Pass is fascinated with life at the laundromat. Her first trip to one, back in 1964, was particularly memorable.
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A Clothing Frenzied
2010 / 01:53
Ben Zimmerman ran The Books' samples through a sequenced Peavey Pro-Fex, created the track in Ableton, mastered it, ran it through several custom dynamic pitch and time-scaling effects (a different program for each submission) and mastered it again.
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Chain of Missing Links - 1
2010 / 02:46
Randy Morton of Pacific Piano Supply in Chatsworth, California talks as he prepares to re-string the Myrow family Steinway.
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All You Need is a ____.
2010 / 01:59
Two opposing groups of immigration protestors in Arizona attempt to define the word "wall" without referring to Mexico.
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A Cold Freezin Night - 1
2010 / 01:04
A stranger wanders into a rural village, seeking warmth and shelter from a sharp January night. Unfortunately his reception at the local watering hole is just as icy as the wind he's trying to escape.
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I Didn't Know That (about windows)
2010 / 02:34
Megan Williams' friend Lorella talks about the social experiment she conducts on a bus in Milan, Italy each August.
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Chain of Missing Links - 2
2010 / 03:00
Eve Abrams was inspired by the heartfelt reactions of her first grade students to the tragedy currently unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico and in their coastal communities.
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Chain of Missing Links - 3
2010 / 03:00
Mary Amoroso, who just had her ninety-fifth birthday, leaves a confused message on her boyfriend's answering machine.
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Chain of Missing Links - 4
2010 / 02:59
A three hour span of time, boys, and awkward breaks in life.
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Chain of Missing Links - 5
2010 / 03:00
The non-fiction scattered story of Devin Hildebrand's family Christmas '95, when his sister received a real kitten, Jodi, just like she wanted, among other things.
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Chain of Missing Links - 6
2010 / 03:00
An age-old story told by ex-slave Alice Gaston, speaking of her former masters, and hearing the constant rattle of long-gone chains.
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Chain of Missing Links - 7
2010 / 03:18
A dreamer offers a peek into the quirky logic of her sleeping mind.
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I Didn't Know That (Hell's Calliope)
2010 / 02:46
Antoinette Jacobson, a sculptor from Norwich, VT, demonstrates her "pyrophone" (fire organ) on a chilly October night on the quad at Colby-Sawyer College in New London NH.
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Chain of Missing Links - 8
2010 / 02:59
Incorporating fictional and non-fictional elements, this is the story of a stripper, a carpenter in drag, a house wife and their chain of interactions.
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I Didn't Know That - 1
2010 / 03:00
A working man spots a beautiful woman in a restaurant while waiting for his food.
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Chain of Missing Links - 9
2010 / 03:00
Sharla Cooper of www.wholefoodies.org explains how whole food is greater than the sum of its refined parts.
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I Didn't Know That - 2
2010 / 03:06
Tamzen Moulding didn't know what was really happening behind the illusionary side of showbiz.
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I Didn't Know That (Lost on Lost)
2010 / 03:00
Justin McLachlan talked with some Lost super fans waiting to watch the series finale about all the things he didn't know he didn't know about the show.
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Chain of Missing Links - 10
2010 / 03:00
The pastor in this fictional drama is the main character in a half-completed short story.
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I Didn't Know That (A Father's Conversion)
2010 / 01:40
A man who would later become a priest describes the day of his conversion.
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A Cold Freezin Night - 3
2010 / 03:01
A bone cold dusk brings the icy adventures of a third grader to a close as his babysitting-tween sister selfishly examines mortality.
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Chain of Missing Links - 11
2010 / 03:00
In which, following a rock concert, the author is accidentally left by friends at an outdoor amphitheater ninety minutes from his home town.
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A Cold Freezin Night - 4
2010 / 03:00
In which, to curb his kids' insatiable greed, the author's father takes it upon himself to call off one of the most anticipated holidays of the year.
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All You Need is a Wall (in Plato's Cave)
2010 / 03:00
A riff on Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in which humans are presented as prisoners who spend their entire lives staring at a cave wall, mistaking the shadows they see there for the totality of existence.
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All You Need is a Wall - 2
2010 / 03:04
Nathan James tells the story of digging his first underground tunnel.
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Chain of Missing Links - 12
2010 / 03:00
In which Dr. Robert W. Smith, University of Nebraska Chemistry professor, describes the enormity of distance between an organic molecule and the smallest living cell.
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A Cold Freezin Night - 5
2010 / 01:35
Recitation of the mystical English poem, "I Saw the Sun at Midnight, Rising Red", 1917 by Joesph Mary Plunkett and music by the Psalters.
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I Didn't Know That - 3
2010 / 03:00
A 14 year old Somali boy describes a method of killing a lion by hand.
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Chain of Missing Links - 13
2010 / 03:00
This is a story about human love, fear, loneliness and self perception in the neverending journey of life in the modern world.
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I Didn't Know That (Eyeborgs Really Exist)
2010 / 03:00
A Canadian filmmaker who lost his eye replaces his prosthetic with a bionic camera-eye so he can shoot documentary video from his pupil.
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I Didn't Know That (road trip)
2010 / 03:00
A journey to find a specific house by a lake. Recorded in the Lake Simcoe area of Ontario, Canada.
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A Cold Freezin Night - 6
2010 / 02:59
Every year smokejumpers, or wildland firefighters who parachute into remote areas to fight forest fires, secure their jobs in part by running for it.
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All You Need is a Wall - 3
2010 / 03:00
In which the author, at a low point, embarks on a relationship with his housemate -- only to learn that she is bipolar and prone to some odd behavior.
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A Cold Freezin Night - 7
2010 / 02:09
Eventhough the cold causes fear and loathing in Finland, simplicity is found from the soul of the Finns: Sauna.
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I Didn't Know That (An Artist's Story)
2010 / 03:00
A young husband and father leaves behind the (relative) security of his corporate cubicle to pursue life as a full-time artist.
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I Didn't Know That (I'd Have a Child)
2010 / 02:57
For most of her life, Caitlin didn't want to have children, but after thirteen years with Devin and a change of heart, she is expecting a son.
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(Bon Jovi) Didn't Know That
2010 / 02:59
When up and coming pop singer Alison Scott loses the chance to open for Bon Jovi, there's only one person who can help.
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Chain of Missing Links (A Case of Musical Stairs)
2010 / 02:55
Producers Joanna Stein and Nicole Beemsterboer take their ears underground and find the origin of some mysterious music.
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Chain of Missing Links - 14
2010 / 02:43
A story of what might have happened that night in the dark alleyways of the dingy part of Helsinki.
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Chain of Missing Links - 15
2010 / 01:35
In which Calvin reflects on the meaning and measure of fatherhood.
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I Didn't Know That (Un Hombre, su Perro, su Caballo, y Cielo)
2010 / 03:00
Field recordings of a Peruvian Pentecostal church service were used as a base for this piece, with which samples from The Books were incorporated in support of the narration of a spanish folk tale about the nature of heaven and best friends.
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I Didn't Know That (Why They Make Us Laugh)
2010 / 02:59
A piece which explores the psychological aspects of stand-up comedy and offers insight into the seemingly simple world of the comedian.
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All You Need is a Wall (And I will find a way to walk right into it)
2010 / 02:24
A young woman's attempt at boosting her "street cred" goes horribly, awkwardly wrong.
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Chain of Missing Links - 16
2010 / 56
A conversation between a middle aged man living near the Lincoln tunnel and his new friend Mr. Army.
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I Didn't Know That (I was capable)
2010 / 03:00
One man's struggle with himself and his family while trying to maintain his faith in God.
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All You Need is a Wall (or Rat Shootin')
2010 / 03:00
A micro-doc of a man's love of shootin' rats, while absorbing the laid back city life from his back porch.
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Chain of Missing Links - 17
2010 / 02:12
A brief look at the issue of substance abuse among Alaskan youth.
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All You Need is The Wall
2010 / 02:32
Audio collage pieced together from sound effects in Pink Floyd's 1979 album "The Wall."
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A Cold Freezin Night - 9
2010 / 03:00
It gets cold in the desert at night and sound travels from really far away.
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All You Need is a Wall - 4
2010 / 03:00
An exercise in time condensation, or more simply time travel, in which the cave wall serves as interface between past and present, human and animal, Philip Smith, librarian, reads excerpts from two books about Upper Paleolithic cave art.
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Chain of Missing Links - 18
2010 / 01:56
A relationship based on missed meetings and message machines.
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Chain of Missing Links (de Unamuno)
2010 / 03:03
Miguel de Unamuno is a very important figure in Spanish history. However his great grandson is much further away from him than any other person in Spain.
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(Bicycle) Chain of Missing Links
2010 / 03:00
2010 ShortDocs Winner! An 80-day bicycle trip from New York City to Seattle, camping and recording along the way, condensed into three minutes.
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Chain of Missing Links - 19
2010 / 02:56
A story of love found, and lost, and the spaces in between.
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A Cold Freezin Night (On the Chain)
2010 / 03:00
Connie Fredenberg tells the story one of her coldest experiences in Nikolski, Alaska.
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I Didn't Know That - 6
2010 / 02:55
I Didn't Know That is a sonic exploration of state-controlled "truths," created almost entirely from appropriated public domain educational and military-training films.
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All You Need is a Microwave
2010 / 02:45
Sometimes interviews take strange turns - especially when the interviewee is a nine-year-old boxer with an inventive imagination.
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A Cold Freezin Ni(g)ht
2010 / 03:00
Spelling Bee Champion Sheena needs to track down, and bring back, the missing letter G for her new town in this radio drama for kids.
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I Didn't Know That Students Had Two Lives
2010 / 02:58
A teacher discovers that one of her students is a murderer and another accidentally misses the killing.
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(I Wish That) I Didn't Know That
2010 / 02:23
Several years after a life-threatening accident, Elizabeth understands what most of us can't.
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I Didn't Know That (You Were a Muslim)
2010 / 02:55
A portrait of how a recent college graduate came to Islam, and the story of what happened when her parents found out she'd converted.
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A Cold Freezin Night (on which people have the lamest conversation ever)
2010 / 03:01
This is what happens on the last night of the Third Coast Conference, on a cold freezin' October night in 2006, when you put six sleep-deprived radio producers in a hotel room at three o'clock in the morning with cheap pizza, bad recording equipment, and a fair bit of alcohol.
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Chain of Missing Links - 20
2010 / 03:00
In a world of billion dollar 'stimulus packages' and Web 2.0 consumer profiling how can you break free of the chains of commerce (and get cheap kicks at the same time)?
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All You Need is a Wall - 5
2010 / 03:00
Since the 1880s Jews from all around the world have been called to Israel by the symbol of the Western Wall - but now there's a new wall where old friends meet.
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I Didn't Know That (Blindwalking)
2010 / 02:59
It's rather difficult to walk down the street with your eyes closed. But one of us tried to, here is the result.
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Chain of Missing Links - 22
2010 / 03:00
A series of archived Craigslist Missed Connections email messages are recorded and re-recorded and with each sent message the message deteriorates.
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Chain of Missing Links (for a nervous kitty)
2010 / 03:01
Jenn Hartmann was moving from New York to Los Angeles, but she had to find a way to bring her nervous kitty. Unfortunately, she decided to fly.
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A Cold Freezin night - 10
2010 / 02:58
This song is a story about the magestical feelings and memories related to going fishing as a child.
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All You Need is a Wall - 7
2010 / 03:00
The problems regarding journeying through a metaphorical landscape.
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Chain of Missing Links - 23
2010 / 02:00
Can you believe there were this many things on top of the ground? Some of them have been worked and are beautiful.
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All You Need is a Wall - 8
2010 / 02:59
Mike shares the story of his start in the black market after he began dating a hippie woman named Samantha.
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Chain of Missing Links (with the Fourth of July)
2010 / 02:31
Recordings of celebration in a distant land.
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I Didn't Know That - 8
2010 / 01:45
Sisters Joyce Brilbeck and Kaye Logan share memories about growing up around Ballantyne Road near Onondaga Creek in Syracuse, NY.
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A Cold Freezin Night (Adventure)
2010 / 02:15
You might imagine the desert to be a cold freezin place at night but not so.
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A You Need is a Wall - 9
2010 / 03:00
A master clock maker explains why he's devoted his life to the clocks we hang on our walls.
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All You Need is a Wall - 10
2010 / 01:42
Writers' block forces an author to reconsider her approach to a lack of inspiration.
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Chain of Missing Links - 24
2010 / 03:07
The author recalls an incident from the past but wonders how much of it is real in this 3 minute piece about memory, ice cream and Lou Reed.
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I Didn't Know That...(a different kind of romance)
2010 / 03:04
Kaitlin and her recorder sitting in a tree...with Kelly the herbalist discussing the possibilities of plant-loving.
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All You Need is a Wall (or, How to Dance in the Moonlight)
2010 / 03:02
The Wall teaches David how to be free--and how to dance.
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Chain of Missing Links (of Art)
2010 / 03:00
What is art? What is an artist? These are questions you need to ask yourself when confronted with Aaron - a computer controlled machine making art.
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Chain of Missing Links - 25
2010 / 02:59
The chains that code for our genes only make up 2% of our DNA, which means the purpose of the rest of the stuff is a bit of a mystery....
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Chain of Missing Links - 26
2010 / 03:00
This audio story is about seeking happiness away from home.
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All You Need is a Wall (I Too, Sing America)
2010 / 02:59
A high school teacher imagines what might happen when poet Langston Hughes, in his poem "I, Too, Sing America," has a chance to leave the kitchen he's confined to and actually sit at the table when company comes.
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All You Need is a Wall (The Infamous Elevator Story)
2010 / 02:52
The close quarters of an elevator make for a particularly suffocating ride after someone, um, passes gas. If only there was a gas mask on board, or a protective wall to block or at least deflect the pungent odor.
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I Didn't Know That (I Was an Albino)
2010 / 03:00
Thomas Bryant Jr. grew up as an African-American with albinism in Washington D.C. during the civil rights movement--a very complicated time to be in between.
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A Cold Freezin Night - 11
2010 / 03:00
Jay came with me to a whiskey convention thinking that he was going to have a blast...but someone from his past throws his night into a painful meditation on love and whiskey.
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All You Need is a Wall (of Noise)
2010 / 03:01
A personal account of Hendrick's adjustment to a hearing impairment, causing him to navigate a world of unwanted sound, is arranged with interviews of two friends recounting a noisy concert experience to help create a perception of what it's like to live behind a wall of noise.
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I Didn't Know That - 9
2010 / 03:02
A man drives through rural Illinois to find an answer to future questions.
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I Didn't Know That - 10
2010 / 02:16
On a rare sunny day in Seattle, we walk around the neighborhood and learn from strangers what we don't know.
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I Didn't Know That (A Short People's History of the United States)
2010 / 03:05
A young rendering of an old story. All contributors between the ages of five and eight.
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All You Need is a Wall - 13
2010 / 03:00
A meditation on big changes, building walls, and breaking them down again.
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I Didn't Know That - 11
2010 / 02:57
An innocent (?) bystander observes a traffic accident and is surprised by his reaction.
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All You Need is a Wall - 14
2010 / 03:05
Dr. Geoffrey Rheaume conducts a tour of the 1860s patient-built wall outside Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
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Chain of Missing Links (Objects and Their Owners)
2010 / 03:00
This piece is an audio documentary centering on the stories of how people become connected to objects and about how we let these objects go at a garage sale.
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I Didn't Know That - 12
2010 / 02:44
In a small, urban forest hidden inside San Francisco's Tenderloin district, a curious group of nine and ten year old children are learning to sew.
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Chain of Missing Links (& More)
2010 / 03:01
Jennifer Brandel Just when you're convinced someone is gone as you knew them...
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I Didn't Know That (Whozaphone)
2010 / 03:02
Shelley seeks solitude with her hand-cranked whozaphone, but instead finds a friend in the Outer Limits.
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All You Need is a Wall - 15
2010 / 02:55
A young man, lost in sound, finds his way through the wall.
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Chain of Missing Links - 29
2010 / 03:00
A quarky upbeat piece playing with the idea of broadcasting emotions through computer screens and loving each other via satellite.
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I Didn't Know That - 13
2010 / 02:59
I realized after the fact that this is basically a cover of Aerosmith's "Dream On," for chorus of female voices.
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All You Need is a Wall - 16
2010 / 02:59
2010 ShortDocs Winner! In 2004, a group of Pride Day revellers gathered for a party on Creighton Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia and were treated to a riveting display of hermaphroditic slug sex.
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All You Need is a Wall - 17
2010 / 02:58
There he stood, stout and smirking, with a handlebar moustache - I felt like he was looking right at me.
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Chain of Missing Links - 32
2010 / 02:47
An experimental jam using circuit-bent toys, laptop, and vocoder created at the weekly eSymposium hosted by Patrick McCarthy of Roth Mobot and held at Lizard's Liquid Lounge.
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I Didn't Know That (art)
2010 / 02:59
When an elementary school teacher who has never taken an art class is asked to be a presenter at an art awards ceremony, she enlists the help of students and parents to explain to her what art actually is.
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A Cold Freezin Night - 12
2010 / 01:24
A nostalgic recollection of a late night out driving around and swimming with friends a few summers ago back on Cape Cod, where I grew up.
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A Cold Freezin Night (Inverse Winter)
2010 / 03:10
In Tucson, Arizona, summer is like winter in Canada.
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All You Need is (gum on) a Wall
2010 / 02:35
A monster grows while attracting tourists in downtown Seattle.
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Chain of Missing Links - 33
2010 / 03:04
Peter Wallace left the village of Leenane in the west of Ireland for the building sites of England and Germany in 1969 at 19 years of age; he came to live in Leeane once again in 2004.
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A Cold Freezin Night - 13
2010 / 02:46
Austin, Texas based experimental performance art group Happiness is a Choice use improvisation and their unique style of meta-theater to learn about each other and about the moments that they share on stage.
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Chain of Missing Links - 31
2010 / 03:01
A young woman takes up knitting and finds an irresistible combination of wool and whiskey, peace and productivity.
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I Didn't Know That - 14
2010 / 03:01
An improvised scene by Brendan Pelsue and Natasha Haverty, set in an imagined seaside town.
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All You Need is a Wall (or at least one good idea...)
2010 / 03:01
Producer Catie Talarski and her eleven-year-old brother get to work creating their annual Thirdcoast Shortdoc.
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A Cold Freezin Night - 14
2010 / 02:28
A stranger moves slowly through town and reflects on all that has happened.
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A Cold Freezin Night (for Doomed Lovers)
2010 / 02:59
2010 ShortDocs Winner! I said this is NUTS, and he agreed.
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Chain of Missing Links (El Pájaro Volador)
2010 / 03:00
Spanish guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Rosalia Roio talks about her Pájaro Volador ("Flying Bird"), one of her many homemade instruments built from recycled objects.
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(For) A Cold Freezin Night
2010 / 02:50
Music incorporating a performance of William Safford's poem "A Story That Could Be True" with Book Odds samples.
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All You Need is a (Separation Barrier)
2010 / 03:01
2010 ShortDocs Winner! From Baghdad to Western Sahara, an alphabetic listing of the world's prominent separation barriers builds a wall of its own.
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All You Need is a Wall (For A Classroom)
2010 / 02:56
A few late students help us understand why the classroom is a special place.
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Chain of Missing Links - 35
2010 / 02:43
After learning of the bike shop's impending eviction, R.U.B.A.R.B. (Rusted Up Beyond All Recognition Bikes) volunteers share their memories and discuss possible future locations.
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A Cold Freezin Night - 15
2010 / 02:37
A detective story. "There was a murder of a young man, who had three mistresses. Which of them is a murderer?"
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Chain of Missing Links - 36
2010 / 02:59
A German and a Jew attempt to discover the relationship between their past and present - but their conversation proves only to weave a distorted map of missing links.
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Chain of Missing Links (and beyond)
2010 / 02:39
Beginning is always a challenge but thoughts once thought unconnected create a story.
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All You Need is a Wall - 18
2010 / 03:05
We remember some events as shockingly impossible, and yet just as easily, they could have happened to any one of us.
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I Didn't Know That (Ryan)
2010 / 03:00
A college student reflects on an important lesson learned not in the classroom but in the bedroom.