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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Cicatrix
"Cicatrix" resonates in regenerative acts, resiliency, rootedness, and irreparably damaged nerves as it tries to imagine one woman's language of war.
- 2008
- 02:51
- Joan Schuman
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Creative Process
An entry about making a contest entry.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Kay Collins
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Control of Swimsuit and Mind
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.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Kathleen Goldhar
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Can't Catch Us All
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.)
- 2007
- 02:31
- Conor Lennon
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Caryll and Sidney: An Unlikely Love Story
Catholic mystic falls for the Ace of Spies in post-World War 1 London.
- 2007
- 02:59
- Kay Collins
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Crown the King: Red Takes Black
2012 ShortDocs Winner! One block from Adam Kampe's apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Razor gather to trash talk over heated games of checkers.
- 2012
- 02:32
- Adam Kampe
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The Control of Teenagers
The Control of Teenagers dances on the corpse of self-help publishing;
- 2008
- 02:41
- Michael Hearst
- Rick Moody
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The Color Is Black
Here is darkness, construed as manifestations of the color black through history, space, time, and in the natural world.
- 2004
- 05:34
- Jerome Schmidt
- Rick Moody
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Cooler by the Lake
A classical composer, Stuart Brocklehurst, attempts to deal with his writer's block through environmental field recording.
- 2009
- 06:14
- Laura Vitale
- Rick Moody
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Chicago's Gangster
Every July 22nd, a group of Chicagoans gather to memorialize the death of infamous and beloved bank robber John Dillinger, who spent a year evading the authorities and winning American hearts before he was shot dead in July, 1934.
- 2009
- 03:56
- Heather Radke
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Chain of Missing Links - 36
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.
- 2010
- 02:59
- JJ Hurvich
- Jonathan Beier
- Tad Klimp
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Christmas With Grandma
With Grandma, things start bad and get worse.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Ken Cormier
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Chinese Pants
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.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Lucy Jan-Turan
- Ramona Jan
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Curve of the Earth
A small bicycle bell rings in a big landscape.
- 2007
- 02:50
- Keith Taylor
- Stephanie Rowden
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Carl, with an El
Carl Sandburg inspires a meditation on private worlds as we ride the El.
- 2009
- 02:45
- Neil Sandell
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Couple Two Tree
A loving examination of the Chicagoan language by four non-etymologists.
- 2009
- 03:01
- Sean Cole
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Chain of Missing Links - 31
A young woman takes up knitting and finds an irresistible combination of wool and whiskey, peace and productivity.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Katy Giebenhain
- Sue Muldowney
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Chain of Missing Links - 27
A mother and daughter assess the plight of a neighbor.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Cheryl McPhilimy
- Tony Green
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Chain of Missing Links (A Case of Musical Stairs)
Producers Joanna Stein and Nicole Beemsterboer take their ears underground and find the origin of some mysterious music.
- 2010
- 02:55
- Joanna Stein
- Nicole Beemsterboer
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Chain of Missing Links - 18
A relationship based on missed meetings and message machines.
- 2010
- 01:56
- Paul Staunton
- Rachel Ní Chuinn
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Chain of Missing Links - 25
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....
- 2010
- 02:59
- Henry Hocking
- Marnie Chesterton
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Coloring In the Great White North
Three neighbors in Fargo, ND, talk about the rapid coloring in of a town in the Great White North.
- 2012
- 02:58
- Brad Delzer
- Erika Lorentzsen
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Cassius
To stick with the herd, sometimes you give up everything.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Jessica Klinke
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The Chronicle of a Goodbye Foretold
Harry tells us his chronicle of a foretold goodbye.
- 2016
- 03:02
- Eva Moeraert
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Chewed-Up Justice
A young man's gritty investigation of a crime that hit his snack drawer.
- 2016
- 02:59
- James Lindberg