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.
- 2012
- 02:57
- Nancy Previs
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.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Clemence Petit-Perrot
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.
- 2012
- 02:58
- Britt Wray
Yellow Bellied White Woman Fights the Blues (Sat 11-5)
Hello neighbor the weather is fine outside and my old stuff is all yours all free, well, kind of.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Jane Cramer
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.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Ajai Raj
Red White & Bruised
2012 ShortDocs Winner! Don Floyd looks back on his life of eighty years, after surviving a heart attack in March of 2012.
- 2012
- 02:57
- Brian Barnhart Jr
- John Musto
Bee a Good Neighbor - They'll Give You Gold
The story of how I helped a neighbour move thousands of his tiny friends to a new home.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Tom Allan
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.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Leni Günther
My Blue Bucket
A simple scene of sharing language, laughter, songs and daily chores with my neighbours in Kigali, Rwanda.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Helene Thomas
- Steven Tilley
The Green Controller
Typical day at the dormitory - the usual sounds that are heard across the hall.
- 2012
- 02:43
- Alejandro Remigio
Through the Perforated Tan Walls
A community of music lovers share their experiences with the practice rooms at Allen Hall, a Living and Learning dorm at University of Illinois.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Kim Peterson
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.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Dave Pickering
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!)
- 2012
- 02:45
- Maartje Duin
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).
- 2012
- 02:39
- Matthew Wilmott
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.
- 2012
- 02:58
- Matthew Wilmott
Pink Pong
Louise tries to teach me singing, and Philip speaks about silence and writing.
- 2012
- 02:49
- Daniel Martin-Borret
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.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Nancy Camden
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.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Nick Andersen
Our Blacktop
A recollection of simpler times with the friends I grew up with.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Noah Vandercook
White Picket Pretense
The truth behind the white picket fence: A story of neighbors at odds, egos at war, and kids at play
- 2012
- 03:00
- Cameron Hughes
- Christy Hughes
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".
- 2012
- 03:00
- Dash Hay
Forget Me Not Suburban St. Louis, For You Are The Site of My Sexual Liberation
St. Louis kinksters demonstrate that an history of lab-based human sexuality studies in the city can be recast as communal, playful, and liberating in the suburbs.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Daniel Makagon
- Mary R. Gould
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.
- 2012
- 03:00
- softirishrain
Barmy Banff Blackout Bingo!
Welcome to Thursday night $1,000 jackpot bingo at The Royal Canadian Legion in the small Rocky Mountain town of Banff, Alberta.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Alyssa Moxley
Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Lutheran?
I challenged my neighbors to a good old fashioned college chant off!
- 2012
- 02:51
- Bradley Campbell