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.

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

Orange Blossom and the Continuous Cut

From Lake Shore Drive to Tokyo... surviving the Continuous Cut.

2012
00
John Lietzau

The Invisible Neighborhood - The Making and Unmaking of Home

A voice collage with the words and ideas of three of my neighbors currently living near a peninsula that is about to be developed for a new minor league basketball arena, hotel, parking garage, and possibly even a nature trail in Portland, Maine.

2012
03:01
Caroline Losneck

Everyone Forgets the Grey Horizon

A disgruntled renter writes the landlord.

2012
02:53
Jack Gobillot

Who's Sleeping on the Green Couch Tonight?

I currently live in a studio apartment (see photo) with two of my closest girlfriends--Jenni Fenton and Nikki Jolin, and this is what our humble home sounds like.

2012
02:49
Becky Vevea

(Blue) Locker Partners

What it's like to be neighbors in a space that's nine inches wide.

2012
02:59
Linda Lutton

A Coral Chain

I'll interview you, then you interview someone else.

2012
02:15
Zak Rosen

Orange Pigeons at the Legion Post

For the first time, I visit the neighborhood skeet shoot at the American Legion Post across the road.

2012
02:59
Sam Fuqua

Through the Brownstone Walls

A story about the strange things we overhear from our neighbors.

Girls in Purple, Playing Rugby

It's about girls who dare be who they really are.

2012
0
Cindy Huang

Behind Pink Walls: In Search of a Sound

Neighbors on a New Orleans street corner investigate a peculiar noise that everyone hears, but no one can find it.

72 Steps Above the Green

Sometimes it's a blessing to have noisy neighbours.

2012
02:58
Geoff McQueen

Some White Noise

Navid, my little neighbor.

2012
02:16
Kim Fox

Greenness Envy

It's a terrible, beautiful affliction, with no known cure.

2012
03:00
Eileen Heyes

Coffee and Cream

A Nigerian woman discusses how science and coffee have provided stability amidst all her struggles.

2012
03:01
David Hovar

Black and Blue, Not Pink

Every week, my roommate Olivia goes to the gym down the street to punch people and while she may be like one of the guys when she's in the ring, friends and family don't quite understand.

2012
02:55
Lindsey Kratochwill

Aphrodite's Black and Blues

Try to understand where people are coming from before you decide about them.

2012
03:00
Diedra Roesijadi

The Tyranny of the Orange Ticket

Twice a week, New York City car owners participate in a bizarre ritual that pits neighbor against neighbor in a competitive fight for parking spaces.

2012
02:41
Elizabeth Harball

A Silent Tornado. A Long, Black Night.

Virginia Miller and her husband Tim recount the night a tornado hit Apison, Tenn., and how it changed their relationship with their neighbors.

2012
02:14
Mary Helen Miller

Her Beautiful Brown Burden

Little did I know that my neighbor has a special gift, which I'd like to call a beautiful brown burden.

2012
03:01
Ashley Kim

Shades of Blue

Martha White interviewed her friend Jessica Chapin at Santa Monica's Step Up on Second, a psychosocial rehabilitation and support program for people affected by severe and persistent mental illness.