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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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
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Flying Dream Sequence
The tale of a recurring dream.
- 2008
- 02:37
- Matt Fleeger
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Matt and Bart Sleep in the Airstream
A sketch comedy short in the style of my weekly radio show, which features my co-host Bart and me in zany situations.
- 2008
- 02:43
- Matt Fleeger
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The Unsustainable Age
A History Channel-style short told from the 23rd century.
- 2008
- 02:58
- Matt Fleeger
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The Woman in the Tree
Here's a story along the theme of "ephemera" - things that were not built to be around for long.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Kathryn Born
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A Transgender Childhood
Growing up isn't easy - when you feel as if your mind is one gender, and your body another.
- 2008
- 03:03
- Tina Antolini
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Two Trailer Love Stories
A young woman and a married couple look back on trailer-style good times.
- 2008
- 03:04
- Meagan Perry
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Six Minutes
A motorcyclist hits the only tree standing in an otherwise empty field.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Katie Ball
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That Tragic Night
Survivors recount the sinking of the Titanic.
- 2008
- 02:31
- Catie Talarski
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Sending Books to Africa
A surreal tale about book donations, whitefish salad, and trans-atlantic journeys.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Sarah Yahm
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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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Retro Rhetoric: Becoming More Becoming
How to make your dreams of happiness come true.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Sarah Boothroyd
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Upon the Black Top Sea
Joe escapes in his trailer alone but this time he has a visitor.
- 2008
- 02:31
- Mary Mazurek
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The Great Tree Strike of 1934
A record of one of the most significant cultural events of New Zealand's forgotten history.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Shaun D. Wilson
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Lucky Star
When you are taking risks and you don't know it's risky, and pushing boundaries when you don't know they are boundaries, it's good to be lucky.
- 2008
- 02:55
- Julia Grant
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Creative Process
An entry about making a contest entry.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Kay Collins
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Labor Pains
Whether it's societal progress or a squiggly 11-pound miracle, getting there isn't always pretty.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Rich Halten
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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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Every Morning I Hear This Voice...
A cultural detective searches out a singing stranger and in the process finds out how prayer affects a young man's life.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Mikkel Nedergaard
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Misguided Meditation
A guided meditation spoof for all those searching for enlightenment, but who don't know where to find it.
- 2008
- 03:02
- Sarah L'Estrange
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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
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The Haymarket Incident
One teenager changes my perspective about a significant event in labor (and U.S.) history.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Rehman Tungekar
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Invisible Greek Rain
Every book seems to be a small universe, every title is like four "visible" percent of this universe.
- 2008
- 02:35
- Anastasia Ivanova
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Feeling Small but Dreaming Big
"Why we should not imagine a row of sheep at night and why is a coffee tree sometimes like a man?"
- 2008
- 02:30
- Anastasia Ivanova
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Beyond the Tree Line
A lesson on abstinence recorded in a makeshift recording hut in rural Wisconsin.
- 2008
- 03:01
- Jane Cramer