ShortDocs
Discover hundreds of short audio gems produced for the Third Coast ShortDocs Audio Challenge. Each year ushers in a new set of rules, new creative partner, and ever-more wondrous results.
Chain of Missing Links - 6
An age-old story told by ex-slave Alice Gaston, speaking of her former masters, and hearing the constant rattle of long-gone chains.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Josh Gibbs
Chain of Missing Links - 7
A dreamer offers a peek into the quirky logic of her sleeping mind.
- 2010
- 03:18
- Claire Caldwell
I Didn't Know That (Hell's Calliope)
Antoinette Jacobson, a sculptor from Norwich, VT, demonstrates her "pyrophone" (fire organ) on a chilly October night on the quad at Colby-Sawyer College in New London NH.
- 2010
- 02:46
- Hester L Fuller
Chain of Missing Links - 8
Incorporating fictional and non-fictional elements, this is the story of a stripper, a carpenter in drag, a house wife and their chain of interactions.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Andrew Parsons
I Didn't Know That - 1
A working man spots a beautiful woman in a restaurant while waiting for his food.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Curtis Williams
- Masaki Araya
A Cold Freezin Night - 7
Eventhough the cold causes fear and loathing in Finland, simplicity is found from the soul of the Finns: Sauna.
- 2010
- 02:09
- Katri Puro
I Didn't Know That (I'd Have a Child)
For most of her life, Caitlin didn't want to have children, but after thirteen years with Devin and a change of heart, she is expecting a son.
- 2010
- 02:57
- Michael De Bonis
All You Need is a Wall - 5
Since the 1880s Jews from all around the world have been called to Israel by the symbol of the Western Wall - but now there's a new wall where old friends meet.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Wil Crisp
All You Need is a Microwave
Sometimes interviews take strange turns - especially when the interviewee is a nine-year-old boxer with an inventive imagination.
- 2010
- 02:45
- David Schultz
Chain of Missing Links - 18
A relationship based on missed meetings and message machines.
- 2010
- 01:56
- Paul Staunton
- Rachel Ní Chuinn
Chain of Missing Links (de Unamuno)
Miguel de Unamuno is a very important figure in Spanish history. However his great grandson is much further away from him than any other person in Spain.
- 2010
- 03:03
- Sofia Saldanha
(Bicycle) Chain of Missing Links
2010 ShortDocs Winner! An 80-day bicycle trip from New York City to Seattle, camping and recording along the way, condensed into three minutes.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Matt Purdy
Chain of Missing Links - 19
A story of love found, and lost, and the spaces in between.
- 2010
- 02:56
- Julia Grant
A Cold Freezin Night (On the Chain)
Connie Fredenberg tells the story one of her coldest experiences in Nikolski, Alaska.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Aviva Hirsch
I Didn't Know That - 6
I Didn't Know That is a sonic exploration of state-controlled "truths," created almost entirely from appropriated public domain educational and military-training films.
- 2010
- 02:55
- Tom Tenney
A Cold Freezin Ni(g)ht
Spelling Bee Champion Sheena needs to track down, and bring back, the missing letter G for her new town in this radio drama for kids.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Shubha Bala
All You Need is a Wall - 4
An exercise in time condensation, or more simply time travel, in which the cave wall serves as interface between past and present, human and animal, Philip Smith, librarian, reads excerpts from two books about Upper Paleolithic cave art.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Philip Smith
I Didn't Know That Students Had Two Lives
A teacher discovers that one of her students is a murderer and another accidentally misses the killing.
- 2010
- 02:58
- Aaron Sand
(I Wish That) I Didn't Know That
Several years after a life-threatening accident, Elizabeth understands what most of us can't.
- 2010
- 02:23
- Jamie Courville
I Didn't Know That - 7
A first- hand account of a strange event overheard on a bus.
- 2010
- 03:02
- Rowan D G Corkill
I Didn't Know That (You Were a Muslim)
A portrait of how a recent college graduate came to Islam, and the story of what happened when her parents found out she'd converted.
- 2010
- 02:55
- Tali Singer
A Cold Freezin Night (on which people have the lamest conversation ever)
This is what happens on the last night of the Third Coast Conference, on a cold freezin' October night in 2006, when you put six sleep-deprived radio producers in a hotel room at three o'clock in the morning with cheap pizza, bad recording equipment, and a fair bit of alcohol.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Dennis Conrow
Chain of Missing Links - 20
In a world of billion dollar 'stimulus packages' and Web 2.0 consumer profiling how can you break free of the chains of commerce (and get cheap kicks at the same time)?
- 2010
- 03:00
- Wil Crisp
I Didn't Know That - 5
A woman realizes that her partner isn't all she thought he was.
- 2010
- 01:36
- Paul Staunton
- Rachel Ní Chuinn
A Cold Freezin Night - 9
It gets cold in the desert at night and sound travels from really far away.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Anna Boiko-Weyrauch