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.

I Didn't Know That - 8

Sisters Joyce Brilbeck and Kaye Logan share memories about growing up around Ballantyne Road near Onondaga Creek in Syracuse, NY.

Chain of Missing Links (of Art)

What is art? What is an artist? These are questions you need to ask yourself when confronted with Aaron - a computer controlled machine making art.

2010
03:00
Jakob Lisbjerg

A Cold Freezin Night (Adventure)

You might imagine the desert to be a cold freezin place at night but not so.

2010
02:15
Julien Clancy

A You Need is a Wall - 9

A master clock maker explains why he's devoted his life to the clocks we hang on our walls.

2010
03:00
Patrick Skahill

All You Need is a Wall - 10

Writers' block forces an author to reconsider her approach to a lack of inspiration.

Chain of Missing Links - 24

The author recalls an incident from the past but wonders how much of it is real in this 3 minute piece about memory, ice cream and Lou Reed.

2010
03:07
Ruth Lopez

I Didn't Know That...(a different kind of romance)

Kaitlin and her recorder sitting in a tree...with Kelly the herbalist discussing the possibilities of plant-loving.

2010
03:04
Kaitlin Prest

All You Need is a Wall (or, How to Dance in the Moonlight)

The Wall teaches David how to be free--and how to dance.

2010
03:02
Sam Greenspan

All You Need is a Wall - 14

Dr. Geoffrey Rheaume conducts a tour of the 1860s patient-built wall outside Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

2010
03:05
Linda Besner

I Didn't Know That - 12

In a small, urban forest hidden inside San Francisco's Tenderloin district, a curious group of nine and ten year old children are learning to sew.

2010
02:44
Kendall Taggart

I Didn't Know That (Blindwalking)

It's rather difficult to walk down the street with your eyes closed. But one of us tried to, here is the result.

Chain of Missing Links - 35

After learning of the bike shop's impending eviction, R.U.B.A.R.B. (Rusted Up Beyond All Recognition Bikes) volunteers share their memories and discuss possible future locations.

2010
02:43
Milissa Orzolek

A Cold Freezin Night (for Doomed Lovers)

2010 ShortDocs Winner! I said this is NUTS, and he agreed.

2010
02:59
Andrea Silenzi

Chain of Missing Links (El Pájaro Volador)

Spanish guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Rosalia Roio talks about her Pájaro Volador ("Flying Bird"), one of her many homemade instruments built from recycled objects.

2010
03:00
Brendan Baker

(For) A Cold Freezin Night

Music incorporating a performance of William Safford's poem "A Story That Could Be True" with Book Odds samples.

2010
02:50
Brendan Baker

All You Need is a (Separation Barrier)

2010 ShortDocs Winner! From Baghdad to Western Sahara, an alphabetic listing of the world's prominent separation barriers builds a wall of its own.

2010
03:01
Niall Farrell

All You Need is a Wall (For A Classroom)

A few late students help us understand why the classroom is a special place.

2010
02:56
Aaron Sand

Chain of Missing Links - 34

A contagion of phone messages add up to an empty office.

2010
02:55
Neil Sandell

A Cold Freezin Night - 15

A detective story. "There was a murder of a young man, who had three mistresses. Which of them is a murderer?"

All You Need is a Wall (or at least one good idea...)

Producer Catie Talarski and her eleven-year-old brother get to work creating their annual Thirdcoast Shortdoc.

2010
03:01
Catie Talarski

Chain of Missing Links - 36

A German and a Jew attempt to discover the relationship between their past and present - but their conversation proves only to weave a distorted map of missing links.