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.
'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
Gobble Gobble
A new kind of resolution to Thanksgiving conflict.
- 2006
- 02:34
- Jane Cramer
Reel Noise
Surreal as it may seem, this rock band became very famous.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Derek Simons
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
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love 99 Ways
Remember when we were paranoid?
- 2006
- 02:30
- Andrea Appleton
- Bruce Wallace
Sound and Territory
Apartment sounds reveal a roommate crisis, the unwanted sharing of a territory.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Christine Morin
- Marie-France Garon
Don't Take the Girl
Musical murder trial with a twist.
- 2006
- 02:33
- Jessica Gonzalez
The Dwayne Split
The answering machine traps a surprising revelation from an "old friend."
- 2006
- 02:30
- Lawrence Dolton
Naptime
What does he remember from three months ago?
- 2006
- 02:30
- Julia Barton
Hearing Things
A narrator tackles disembodied voices; admitting she seeks out the strange while actual Electronic Voice Phenomenon reverberates in a surreal background.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Carolina Wheat
Strictly Vegetarian, or, Something Happened During That Trip to Malacca, Malaysia
She is now pregnant!
- 2006
- 02:32
- Jaume Pique
- Manel Perez
And Plenty of Others Never Got Along
A whisper of memory to transcend the frame of context and the boundary of plot.
- 2006
- 02:00
- Jamie Proctor
The Interloper
The story of a woman's fifth breast biopsy.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Kay Collins
Ligeti Was in My Apartment
What happened when Ligeti's ghost helped me create a sound piece.
- 2006
- 02:32
- Jeffrey Letterly
Micro-Sonic
Mourning and a smaller memorial.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Stacy Bond
Bring on Jesus!
Superstition, money, rules, bullshit, loud guitars, talking Moses and Jesus, and Santa!
- 2006
- 02:31
- Big Swifty
The Long Way Home
New light on the wanderings of Odysseus provided by the discovery of Penelope's answering machine tape.
- 2006
- 02:30
- David Henderson
The Mime
The sounds of Turkish pop star Tarkan melds with possibly the most annoying roommate ever.
- 2006
- 02:50
- Cyrus Farivar
- Rebeka Kouy-Ghadosh
Perfect Founders
The duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton rearranged for laughs and life lessons.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Paula Rogers
Eagle 202
The true story of Chris, who thought it would be a fun intellectual challenge to try to write a piece of air traffic control software his company had abandoned -- and what happened next.
- 2006
- 02:32
- Heather Kitching
Computer Drama
The computer talk show meets Saturday morning cartoons; featuring real live computer expert, Sarah Millen.
- 2006
- 02:28
- Heather Kitching
Henry Ford Wouldn't Have Called in Sick
Feuding co-workers in an auto parts factory conpsire to assemble the big one.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Tammy Terwelp
Do What You Fear and Fear Disappears
Screams, thoughts on fear, screams, spooky music, more screams.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Sarah Boothroyd
Evolution
In a piece that captures the history of (aural) technology, text-to-speech engines prove that computers really can befuddle man.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Dennis Conrow
Deep-Fried Gravy
Mabel and Dexter prove that one can experience culture clash and true love simultaneously.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Amy Pickett
- Chip Bradley