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.
Thrifty Liquidators
In addition to writing lyrically ABOUT the wonders of the dollar store phenomenon...
- 2007
- 02:14
- Michael Hearst
- Rick Moody
Sidney
Of a cat, a Necessary, litter, and oh yeah, mice.
- 2007
- 03:01
- Kay Collins
Avant Guardian
The Avant Guardian fights crime using the power of surrealism and his trusty P.S.M.G.
- 2007
- 03:00
- David Weinberg
Red Baiting
Decommissioned Soviet mousetraps in Brooklyn's Little Odessa.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Joe Milutis
The New Pleasant Revolution
A bike messenger provides alternatives to horrible traffic horns.
- 2007
- 02:47
- Michael Slaboch
- Tony Mendoza
Musings Over Coffee
Half commentary, half documentary, the inscription on this coffee mug took me back to old memories.
- 2007
- 02:37
- Sandra Sleight-Brennan
The Golden Mug Award
The coveted golden mug award is given to an actor or actress for their portrayal of an independent woman in history.
- 2007
- 02:30
- David Weinberg
Dollar Daze
Third Coast Festival artistic director Julie Shapiro describes her rendez-vous with Dollar Store founder Jonathan Messinger at Dollar Daze in downtown Chicago, where the Dollar Storeys items were chosen.
- 2007
- 03:20
- Johanna Zorn
- Julie Shapiro
How to Be Heard
2007 ShortDocs Winner! Advice for the bicycle bell with aspirations, featuring voice teacher Rachel Nicholson.
- 2007
- 02:57
- Nina Perry
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
Can't Catch Us All
What mice find offensive is the fact that these traps are not only lethal, but also cheap, low quality imports. (Don't mess with the mice.)
- 2007
- 02:31
- Conor Lennon
House Trap
"The best-laid plans of mice and men go oft awry"- Rober Burns, To a Mouse [The mousetrap set recalls a long-forgotten incident in the producer's first residence in Toronto.]
- 2007
- 02:44
- Robert Hoare
- Steven Sauve
The Silent Work of Ordinary People
An extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary worker.
- 2007
- 03:03
- Keith Brand
- Nathan Long
What Do You Want?
It's hard to think of anything that will last forever.
- 2007
- 02:58
- Julia Grant
The Horrible Truth About Indie Ice Cream
An investigation into why an ice cream truck was driving down my street at 9:30 PM.
- 2007
- 02:43
- Gabe Bullard
I'm Not Bossy
Three mothers read slogans found on women's T-shirts in a local mall.
- 2007
- 02:41
- Gabe Bullard
Bells
A guy drifts back to the years he drove around on his bike, when he should be meditating.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Frank Karall
Viva La Fiesta!
It's time to celebrate Old Spanish Days in Santa Barbara.
- 2007
- 02:56
- Diane Bock
Ring It Loud
A tender portrait of the sofly spoken environmental campaigner and former world champion cyclist Judith Sanderson, who 20 years ago smashed 5 middle distance records in her sport.
- 2007
- 02:56
- Emily Williams
Unless We Showed Up in Hazmat Suits
If Lucy met her best friend in person, her life expectancy would be cut in half.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Hillary Frank
Caryll and Sidney: An Unlikely Love Story
Catholic mystic falls for the Ace of Spies in post-World War 1 London.
- 2007
- 02:59
- Kay Collins
I Was a Preteen Nightmare
A well-intentioned yet horribly misinformed adolescent makes a monumental miscalculation of both form and judgment.
- 2007
- 03:03
- Jill Dorothy Summers
American Dream
The mice have invaded and are having some R and R... so I might as well help them enjoy themselves.
- 2007
- 02:36
- Chris Angelos
Gifts
Two life-long bachelors kvetch over the phone.
- 2007
- 03:13
- Firestone Mulvaney
I'm Alive
A bell realizes it's alive while on a conveyor belt and then en route to a dollar store.
- 2007
- 01:03
- Brian Corbet