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.

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A Cold Freezin Night - 12

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.

2010
01:24
Matthew McVickar

Ant Farm

This nature documentary explores the world of the formicarium or ant farm with expert Claire Craig.

2016
03:00
Rachel Gelfand

And Through We Went

A hidden note begins an adventure in a strange house in Logan Square.

2016
02:19
Elisa Shoenberger

All You Need is a Wall - 17

There he stood, stout and smirking, with a handlebar moustache - I felt like he was looking right at me.

2010
02:58
Lauren Kirby

All You Need is a Wall - 15

A young man, lost in sound, finds his way through the wall.

2010
02:55
Alexander Stephens

All You Need is a Wall (The Infamous Elevator Story)

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.

2010
02:52
Adam Kampe

All You Need is a Wall - 14

Dr. Geoffrey Rheaume conducts a tour of the 1860s patient-built wall outside Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

2010
03:05
Linda Besner

All You Need is a Wall (Memo)

Nothing makes sense when these things happen.

2010
02:56
Alix Blair

An Escape to Nature

A city goer escapes the loudness of the city to find peace in nature.

2016
02:45
Megan Kolopsky

All You Need is a Wall - 13

A meditation on big changes, building walls, and breaking them down again.

2010
03:00
Mia Lobel

All You Need is a Wall - 12

A journey of discovery, passion, nature, and conscience.

2010
03:00
Ben Pagac

All You Need is a Wall (of Noise)

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.

2010
03:01
Chris Trimmer

A Cold Freezin Night - 11

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.

2010
03:00
Stephanie Foo

A Cold Freezin Night - 3

A bone cold dusk brings the icy adventures of a third grader to a close as his babysitting-tween sister selfishly examines mortality.

2010
03:01
Carolina Wheat

A Cold Freezin Night - 2

Was it just a dream? I can't remember now.

2010
03:01
Katie Mingle

All You Need is a Wall (in Plato's Cave)

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.

2010
03:00
Sarah Boothroyd

A Cold Freezin Night - 1

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.

2010
01:04
Geoff Storm

All You Need is a Wall - 1

Grace De Pass is fascinated with life at the laundromat. Her first trip to one, back in 1964, was particularly memorable.

2010
03:00
Jill Strauss

All You Need is a Wall - 2

Nathan James tells the story of digging his first underground tunnel.

2010
03:04
Chris Bolton

Anxiety

The world is strange outside
I’m a stranger in the landscape
As a bad edition of
Alice in Wonderland

2016
02:00
Rikke Mia Skovdal

All You Need is a Wall - 4

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.