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.
Don't Touch This
One mug brings back memories of past relationships with women.
- 2007
- 02:47
- Pat Corbet
Re:sound #85: The Dollar Storeys Show
This hour: the wild and wonderful results of the Third Coast Festival's 2007 Audio Challenge: Dollar Storeys.
Dear Face at Deer Lake with Deer People
A story about deer, a wonderful lake, internet privacy and who is the deer.
- 2016
- 02:56
- Dear Deer Face Collective
Dinner at the Blind Cow
From the moment you enter the restaurant's dining room, you're in complete darkness. Blind waiters take your order, help you find your water glass, and lead you to the bathroom as needed.
- 2004
- 07:47
- Adam Burke
Deep-Fried Gravy
Mabel and Dexter prove that one can experience culture clash and true love simultaneously.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Amy Pickett
- Chip Bradley
Dollar Daze
Third Coast Festival artistic director Julie Shapiro describes her rendez-vous with Dollar Store founder Jonathan Messinger at Dollar Daze in downtown Chicago, where the Dollar Storeys items were chosen.
- 2007
- 03:20
- Johanna Zorn
- Julie Shapiro
Dawn at Chicago's Magic Hedge
Summer 2009: A field recording from of The Magic Hedge, where Chicago receives the dawn and migratory birds in lakefront silence.
- 2009
- 02:18
- Noe Cuellar
Deportations Before Reform: Anatomy of an Immigration Bust
As lawmakers continued to debate immigration reform in 2010, the Obama administration pushed for a path to citizenship.
- 2011
- 08:56
- Marianne McCune
The Disappearance of George
The true story of a disappearance in the NDG neighborhood of Montreal.
- 2016
- 03:01
- Tally Abecassis
The Drumming Trip
A famous Romanian music therapist invites his clients deep into the wild where they express their most intimate feelings in a very original way.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Cezar Florea
Don't Gogh
Creative inspiration turns to obsession in the life of an artist.
- 2016
- 02:48
- Spivey Knapik
Do What You Fear and Fear Disappears
Screams, thoughts on fear, screams, spooky music, more screams.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Sarah Boothroyd
Dust Bowl Revisited
Woody Guthrie backs up an interview with a Virginia National Guard soldier at an American base in Mosul, Iraq during early 2005.
- 2006
- 02:28
- Steve Walsh
Disrupted
I'm just trying to get some information.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Seth Lind
The Dwayne Split
The answering machine traps a surprising revelation from an "old friend."
- 2006
- 02:30
- Lawrence Dolton
Dancing
You have to ask someone to dance with you, and you have to accept when they ask you to dance.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Julia Grant
Don't Take the Girl
Musical murder trial with a twist.
- 2006
- 02:33
- Jessica Gonzalez
Distilling Stiller
A man walks into his own neuroses.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Zak Rosen
Dear Sweet Mike Levey
An ode to the late great infomercial host and to the realization that we all hunger for something.
- 2013
- 02:59
- Heather Kitching
Diana and the Bacon: a Chef's Last Salty Cravings
A dying French chef's insatiable appetites.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Thalia Gigerenzer
Daisy Chaining
A daughter and her father argue about the relative merits of his vocation.
- 2007
- 02:54
- Joe Giovannetti
Don't Forget to Feed Your Soul... Food (A Salty Reminder)
My mom, some crystals and an unexpected appetite.
- 2013
- 00
- Sally Herships
Duke's Street Corner Blues
Duke, one of the many artists in the historic African American arts district of the Fillmore neighborhood, discusses his surprising first step in becoming an artist.
- 2012
- 02:42
- Kristina Loring
Doggie House Blues
There are two types of neighbors: those with dogs and those without dogs.
- 2012
- 02:59
Dancing Away the Teaching Blues
Life experiences told by my neighbor and colleague: Chris Nho, the breakdancing math teacher.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Julie Ma