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.
I Didn't Know That (road trip)
A journey to find a specific house by a lake. Recorded in the Lake Simcoe area of Ontario, Canada.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Zoe Irvine
I Didn't Know That (Eyeborgs Really Exist)
A Canadian filmmaker who lost his eye replaces his prosthetic with a bionic camera-eye so he can shoot documentary video from his pupil.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Britt Wray
I Didn't Know That - 3
A 14 year old Somali boy describes a method of killing a lion by hand.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Glenn Simonsen
I Will Find You
He was in danger but he had someone whom he can trust, who were wandering in her memories to find the traces of him.
- 2016
- 02:29
- Melike Ceylan
The Interloper
The story of a woman's fifth breast biopsy.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Kay Collins
The Iceberg
An old man fights his demons for 30 years.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Thelon Oeming
Icing Adversity
The story of how the Canadian Women's hockey team overcame the odds and poor officiating to win the gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Sherry Shute
I Don't Know. I Know.
To begin, restating rules is used to avoid actually following rules, just as this more-than-one-sentence description avoids the request for a single sentence through the misuse of the semi-colon; later, mundane answering machine messages become menacing, as the producer manipulates their meaning with music.
- 2006
- 02:39
- Neil Sandell
I Like the Way You Talk
Baglama begins and ends chopped interviews with seniors about love and death and music.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Eric Markowitz
Instant Coffee
A son remembers a woman who loved instant coffee and who may or may not have enjoyed being a housewife.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Dennis Conrow
I Didn't Know That - 14
An improvised scene by Brendan Pelsue and Natasha Haverty, set in an imagined seaside town.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Natasha Haverty
Inside The Leaf It's Bittersweet
The Dolemouse: a nutty study on optimal foraging theory.
- 2013
- 03:03
- Jane Cramer
I Still Prefer the Sweet
Educational & funny experiences with food.
- 2013
- 02:34
- Salma El Kerdany
If Bob Was a Fruit, He'd Be a Yellow Quince
Sometimes neighbours impact our lives -- even when, at first, we don't notice.
- 2012
- 02:53
- Helen Kost
I Still Dream of My Grandfather's Red Roses
Asking people from her community to make a statement beginning with the words "I dream of," Australian documentarist Phoebe Hart curates these fragments and creatively envisages the literal and figurative world of dreams, arresting our collective hopes, desires and fears.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Phoebe Hart
I Didn't Know That (Ryan)
A college student reflects on an important lesson learned not in the classroom but in the bedroom.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Emma Miller
In Praise of Love
A woman grapples with the leap into love.
- 2016
- 02:05
- Stephen Lacey
I'd Like to Straighten You Out
A musician, a living legend, attracts pilgrims, then gives them trouble.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Joseph Decosimo
I'm Salty
I'm Salty -- Put me in your mouth!
- 2013
- 02:51
- Adam Lee
The Internet in Sepia
The internet through the eyes of an inhabitant of the past...
- 2012
- 02:50
- Helena de Groot
The Invisible Neighborhood - The Making and Unmaking of Home
A voice collage with the words and ideas of three of my neighbors currently living near a peninsula that is about to be developed for a new minor league basketball arena, hotel, parking garage, and possibly even a nature trail in Portland, Maine.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Caroline Losneck