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.
Quien soy yo, Quien era yo, Quien será él (Who I am, Who I was, Who He Will Be)
Jimmy Arteaga, a street juggler from Ecuador, reflects on his childhood and his child.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Sayre Quevedo
What will she read tonight?
Three of the founders of the Women's Prison Book Project in Minneapolis talk about their memories and experiences in the early years.
- 2015
- 02:55
- Dixie Treichel
Making a Bitter Beast into a Sweet Meat
How do you take an animal once on the endangered species list, and turn it into dinner?
- 2013
- 03:00
- Tina Antolini
Sweet Madness: A True Story
A dramatic monologue about one woman's obsession with tea.
- 2013
- 02:58
- Scott Priz
Where Do We Go...
Audio impression of racial tensions.
- 2015
- 02:56
- Catie Talarski
Bitter Sweet Beginnings
Faced with their impending graduation, three Duke seniors reminisce about their freshman days and remember how a unique community was created around food.
- 2013
- 02:58
- Dillon Buckner
Sweet Memory Rooh Afzah
Eva Panjwani was five years old when she emigrated from Pakistan to the United States.
- 2013
- 02:41
- Madeline Miller
Umami in the Dark
Hungry for the unknown, a New York City couple experiences their first taste of umami.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Amelia Parenteau
Umami (or Oooh-Mommy); The Mother of All Appetites
We all start out with one appetite, the appetite for our mother's breastmilk.
- 2013
- 02:57
- Sukey Lewis
Who Brings the Heat?
In this mockumentary piece, June Jensen must find a way to keep her hot dish hot on the way to the church potluck.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Alex Ward
What is a Food Desert?
Using the poetry and commentary of Kuumba Lynx (a Chicago-based hip hop coalition) this sound art piece investigates how institutional disinvestments in Chicago's South Side communities have affected its residents' nutritional health.
- 2015
- 02:21
- Justin Zullo
What Darko Said
My Burmese friend Darko teaches us that pop music in Myanmar is defined by the cover song.
- 2015
- 03:00
Why Not?
I met Why Not? while searching for 78RPM records of traditional Saing Waing music in Myanmar.
- 2015
- 02:57
Orange Blossom and the Continuous Cut
From Lake Shore Drive to Tokyo... surviving the Continuous Cut.
- 2012
- 00
- John Lietzau
Rudy's Gray Area
Rudy has lived on this bizarre little block since 1953, before a dozen railroad tracks and nearly as many highway lanes separated it from other residential neighborhoods.
- 2012
- 02:55
- Jennifer Brandel
Green Pilings
Hell and high water came, but Hurricane Katrina couldn't knock out one strong-willed Mississippi family.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Emily Liner
Man With a Blue Truck
Who knew a hit and run could end in friendship?
- 2012
- 03:00
- Eve Abrams
All Grown Up Blues
A portrait of a mother and daughter, born forty years apart.
- 2012
- 02:52
- Yarn AudioWorks
Purple Purpose
FNSS (Friendly Neighborhood Surveillance System) delivers a report to Charles on Mrs. Smotherson, Mr. Eggerly, and Bruce & Denny.
- 2012
- 02:21
- Zachary Baiel
We Do Know There's a Red Shelf in Their Living Room
How little we know of the people who share our roof.
- 2012
- 02:22
- Alison Broverman
The Gray Wisteria of Gilman Terrace
When we bought our dream fixer-up home on Gilman Terrace, my husband and I knew that it came with sad past--but we weren't prepared, when we unlocked the door, to find a house full of someone else's life.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Katherine Perry
White Gold--Fridge Politics of a Student House
A look at what happens when nine individuals have to share one small fridge, and the challenges and issues that come up as a result.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Chris Pearson
Black Coffee
A personal musing about estrangement and its effects on language, cultural identity, and the meaning of home.
- 2012
- 02:05
- Joanne Lam
A Dash of Eastern Grey
A discussion amongst neighbors one late night at the non-stop market on the corner street.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Mara Maracinescu
Battleship Grey
This is the story of why you should never, ever, ever paint your balcony battleship grey.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Danielle Nerman