ShortDocs
Discover hundreds of short audio gems produced in response to a prompt from Third Coast for the ShortDocs Competition, hosted between 2003 and 2016. Each year ushered in a new set of rules, new creative partners, and ever-more magical results.
A Cold Freezin Night - 7
Eventhough the cold causes fear and loathing in Finland, simplicity is found from the soul of the Finns: Sauna.
- 2010
- 02:09
- Katri Puro
All You Need is a Wall - 3
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.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Eric Winick
A Cold Freezin Night - 6
Every year smokejumpers, or wildland firefighters who parachute into remote areas to fight forest fires, secure their jobs in part by running for it.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Nan Floyd
A Cold Freezin Night - 5
Recitation of the mystical English poem, "I Saw the Sun at Midnight, Rising Red", 1917 by Joesph Mary Plunkett and music by the Psalters.
- 2010
- 01:35
- Glenn Simonsen
And Plenty of Others Never Got Along
A whisper of memory to transcend the frame of context and the boundary of plot.
- 2006
- 02:00
- Jamie Proctor
Ayla
Here's a story of newness and wonder and remembering experience before language.
- 2007
- 02:53
- WJ Carlton
The Assassin's Bell
A young Soviet 'Pioneer' (i.e. boy scout) squares off with the CIA -- will he live to tell the tale?
- 2007
- 03:04
- Charles Maynes
An Orchestra of Bicycles
Richard Lerman reflects on Travelon Gamelon, a piece he wrote in 1970 for amplified bicycles.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Rene Gutel
The Angel and the Mourning Cloak
Chance encounters on an April morning show it's the little things in life that can make all the difference.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Jim Barfuss
A Bug in the Works
Found tape diary of a family holiday recorded for Grandma and Grandpa; a six-legged intruder spoils the fun.
- 2006
- 02:33
- Mark Vernon
As if -- or, 99 Minus 1
As if / to discuss the world / John Cage / Joseph Beuys
- 2006
- 02:30
- Jean-Claude Kuner
And I Think There Is Something There That Will Stand the Rain
A woman remembers the most important person in her life.
- 2006
- 01:59
- Lee Fuoco
A Cold Freezin Night - 13
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.
- 2010
- 02:46
- Michael Ferstenfeld
Aghast
Fear is the enemy of discovery.
- 2016
- 03:12
- Ignacio Martinez
Accident Avalanche
It's an Eastern Romance action-surrealist film, but He and She, they didn't get along so well.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Liz Bustamante
A Bitter Betrayal
What happens when you try to order 'the usual' at your neighborhood joint - and can't?
- 2013
- 03:03
- Jennifer Kirby
A Bitter Fight Against Child Hunger
Shannon Coffin of Good Shepherd Food Bank talks about the fight against child hunger in Maine.
- 2013
- 02:45
- Leah Kaliher
A Bitter Sweet Horse Tale
A horse adventure in 3 courses.
- 2013
- 03:04
- Angela Shackel
A Sweet Boy That Can't Savor
For most New Yorkers being surrounded by food is a blessing, but for one boy in Queens it's tormenting.
- 2013
- 02:55
- Will Denselow
A Sweet Journey Around the World
Get a taste of sweetness of three desserts from three different continenets around the world.
- 2013
- 01:56
- Sarah Saad
A Bittersweet Experiment
Two producers explore the hungers generated from living on an island in Alaska and some attempts at satisfying them.
- 2013
- 02:56
- Elise Pepple and Ellen Frankenstein
All Foods Lead to Home (Sweet Home)
Road Rage is transformed by Passionately Prepared Comestibles.
- 2013
- 03:13
- Phyllis Janik
Anatomy of a Sweet
An expert baker attempts to conquer her greatest fear: funfetti.
- 2013
- 02:56
- Hannah Krakauer
A Sweet Martini Memory
A dry martini in the afternoon proved effective in helping a widowed mother navigate the lonely shoals that lay between 4 and 6 p.m.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Ed Cohen
An Appetite for Affirmation: The Bittersweet of Pleasing Your Parents and Pleasing Your Self
Most of us go to college to make our dreams happen, but what do you do when what you want might not be the same as what your parents want?
- 2013
- 03:00
- Lyndi Hollis