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.
Trees for Economic and Social Justice
This piece explores the connections between social justice, activism, and citizenship, and questions the best way to make the world a better place.
- 2008
- 02:52
- Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Two Trailer Love Stories
A young woman and a married couple look back on trailer-style good times.
- 2008
- 03:04
- Meagan Perry
That Tragic Night
Survivors recount the sinking of the Titanic.
- 2008
- 02:31
- Catie Talarski
Tree Body
Three children talk of how trees are good control of body and mind, recite poetry about trees, call out tree names, and make all kinds of lovely unexpected connections.
- 2008
- 02:46
- Alix Blair
Two Libraries
A quiet eavesdropper gets more than he bargained for at the public library.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Noah Levinson
Traveling and Trees
How trees affect me as a photographer.
- 2008
- 03:04
- Pauline Kochanski
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Mousetrap
Both brief reflection on mousetraps and a nod to Wallace Stevens.
- 2007
- 02:35
- Ezekiel Weaver
Tintinnabulation (Florence, Italy)
Florence is a city filled with bells: church bells, hand bells, door bells, bike bells . . .
- 2007
- 03:00
- Lisa Tharpe
Too Much Shade
This piece traces the devolution of a trailer to a tree.
- 2008
- 03:01
- Annie Baxter
Teen Mind
We all should do some work on our brains, but that "work" can be a load of fun, oh yeah.
- 2008
- 02:55
- Frank Karall
Trees Have Full Control of Body and Mind and Are Thus Very Good Citizens
A very comic and nervous Monty Python-type exploration of the life of a tree.
- 2008
- 02:26
- Amy Denes
Telepathic Trees
Brief encounters of the inter-species communication kind.
- 2008
- 03:01
- Amber Cortes
Trees Die for the Sins of Our Legislators
Of cheeseburgers, the Reagans, Grant Park and, of course, trees.
- 2008
- 02:44
- Kay Collins
Too Many Miles
What if Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” were re-imagined as a film?
- 2016
- 02:33
- Stephanie Rowden
- Jennifer Metsker
This Umamican Life
Three acts of This Umamican Life here in Austin, TX in the style of This American LIVE, the live theatre show inspired by This American Life.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Jeff Brit
- Michael Ferstenfeld
- Tiffany Leigh
'Til Death Do Us Part
2006 ShortDocs Winner! Producer Sasha Aslanian's divorced parents listen to audio of their 1963 wedding vows, remember what went wrong, but still can't get over each other.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Sasha Aslanian
Talk to Me About Love
2006 ShortDocs Winner! Two curious siblings finally get what they think they've always wanted.
- 2006
- 02:30
- David Whitcomb
- Jill Dorothy Summers
This Sweetness is Metaphysical
This is a story about adventuring, eating vegan food and smoking weed with your partner.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Scott Fitzpatrick
There Was a Whole Lotta Hundreds...
In America's high schools, students are playing a game whose only rule is to break the rules.
- 2005
- 06:11
- Michael Kavanagh
Thrifty Liquidators
In addition to writing lyrically ABOUT the wonders of the dollar store phenomenon...
- 2007
- 02:14
- Michael Hearst
- Rick Moody
They Didn't Get Along
An inquiry into the nature of human relationships over the course of eons, featuring musical accompaniment in diverse time signatures, and a British narrator.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Michael Hearst
- Rick Moody
Thrown
A fourteen-year-old girl tries to throw her voice and ends up getting thrown herself.
- 2007
- 02:59
- Roxana Hadad
- Shiow-Jiau Yung
Tea for Matilda
Feminist historian Sally Roesch Wagner muses that well-behaved women rarely make history while mis-behaved radicals, such as 19th century women's rights and peace activist Matilda Joslyn Gage, seldom make history books.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Catherine Stifter
Tongues Twisting
Clapping games and tongue twisters in multiple languages turn into rich stories when Judith Sloan records young immigrants in a theatre workshop.
- 2005
- 07:20
- Judith Sloan
The Trap
2007 ShortDocs Winner! Here's a rumination on the ethics of pest killing and attempts at avoidance of the graphic nature thereof.
- 2007
- 03:02
- David Maxon