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.

Happy in Black and White

This is the story of a triangular-shaped green – bordered by busy commuter roads in Dublin, Ireland – which offers a place of sanctuary to more than just people.

We Thought He Had a Black Heart

Through their journey down Letaba road, Brandon, Keith, and Jameel quickly realise that appearances may not be the entire story and that there is much more to their neighbours than they think.

Grey Skies and Packed Basements

A Canadian arrives in London to find herself living with a Swiss Italian and a Brit who have some quirky secrets; after one week she learns more about what her new neighbours are like.

Black Paris Spleen, American Mouths

Journalist Ajai Raj muses about art, fact, and truth with his metaphysical neighbors, the notorious dramatist Mike Daisey and Charles Baudelaire, the renowned poet.

Romantic Red Love, But Not in Sweden

With the couple next door constantly fighting and my friends failed marriages in good memory I started to wonder why Sweden seems to fail in loving until death do us part.

Grey Areas

Grey Areas is about how close Dave Pickering is to his dad, in a literal sense; it's also a tribute to the the neighbour they buried in his back garden.

Ordinary Brown Frogs

A couple from Amsterdam East talks about the brown frogs they introduced to the neighborhood. (You might find this english transcript handy!)

Recollections Dream in Blue

This audio captures the essence of Matthew Wilmott's internal neighbours - silence and recollections/dreams (per say those that that drift dark and heavy in the mind just before sunrise).

Soft Footsteps Fade to Black

Soft footsteps fade to balck is abstract in relation to the conventional form of neighbours, however flashing thoughts and the path can be seen as comfort akin to the world next door.

Ernie's Green Free Tree

Under Ernie's Free Tree neighbors and passersby pick from the free pile, the last of Ernie Winger's possessions—recycling, laughing, crying, remembering a generous man who began life as a poor cast-off to become a neighborhood treasure.

That Mill House Yellow

In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, gentrification advances with a cautionary yellow light as a local property manger paints the town his own special hue.

East Oakland (in Blue)

East Lake Neighbors wax poetic about their neighborhood mixed in with rhymes from Oakland hip-hop artist DO D.A.T.'s album "Oakland in Blue".

A Black Tie Affair

In Ireland where the tradition of waking the dead is strong in rural areas, we go behind the scenes of this centuries old tradition.