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.
The Purple-Spotted Sock
A story about a neighbour, which turns out also to be a story about another neighbour – and when all comes to all: about the narrator herself.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Sigrid Saabye
Game, Set and Tennis Whites
Jo's boys love living on Elliswick Road because of the Tennis Club on the corner, where neighbor Veronica does her bit to help keep things running smoothly.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Jo Coleman
Bye Bye Blue Bird
Strange visitors to an otherwise unremarkable strip mall on Cape Cod face eviction.
- 2012
- 02:53
- JP Davidson
Scaredy Cats (in Grey Scale)
While many people find their small feline neighbours endearing, this is the story of a man who finds them frightening.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Michael Savic
The Yellow Living Room
Somebody gets a friendly new neighbor!
- 2012
- 02:54
- Adrianne Mathiowetz
- Dennis Conrow
New Neighbor Blues
Susan and Joe discover just how much the ocean they grew up with meant to them when they are 3,000 miles from home.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Joseph Molinelli
- Susan Kemp
White Noise
White Noise is about what happens to the residents when several construction projects invade one block at the same time.
- 2012
- 02:55
- Pamela Schwartz
- Shannon Geis
Dancing Away the Teaching Blues
Life experiences told by my neighbor and colleague: Chris Nho, the breakdancing math teacher.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Julie Ma
The Man With the Long White Beard
He's not just the Santa Claus-looking guy who walks his dog every day on my street--he's Larry Bauer: carpenter, man-of-letters.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Scott Pham
Fwd: Have You Red the 'Welcome Back to the D' Thread?
My neighbors read their own words in this piece which spotlights excerpts from an e-mail thread that went out on our neighborhood list-serve, a source of fascination for all involved.
- 2012
- 02:53
- Laura Herberg
Unobstructed Pink and Blue
A landlord and a tenant inhabit the same building on West 18th Street in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Jennifer Swann
Pretty in Pink
The girls upstairs are loud and fun, and one of them is Miss Wicker Park.
- 2012
- 02:52
- Jessica Speer
Oh, Where Have You Been, My Blue-Eyed Son?
Liza introduces her new love, Jonah.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Belinda Lopez
From Green to Gone
A tree is a precious thing in a city...but does anyone care when a tree in their own backyard is cut down?
- 2012
- 02:58
- Hannah Ayers
Sunset Ridge Brown
One morning I looked out my front door and...oh, my, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!?
- 2012
- 02:54
- Bill Ratner
On the Day I Died It Was Mostly Blues
I live next to the Westwood Cemetery in Carrboro, North Carolina and my neighbors are the ghosts who reside there.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Alix Blair
Black Box
"Black Box" is a performance art piece based on a confidential survey asking both local and international participants, 'What would your metaphorical black box say?'
- 2012
- 03:00
- Pascalle Burton
Green Fingers Gather
"Reflections on gardening, allotments, and community in a Garden Sunday event at Plot 22 - a nature space, allotment garden, meeting circle, and learning resource."
- 2012
- 03:00
- Vaska Trajkovska
If Bob Was a Fruit, He'd Be a Yellow Quince
Sometimes neighbours impact our lives -- even when, at first, we don't notice.
- 2012
- 02:53
- Helen Kost
I Still Dream of My Grandfather's Red Roses
Asking people from her community to make a statement beginning with the words "I dream of," Australian documentarist Phoebe Hart curates these fragments and creatively envisages the literal and figurative world of dreams, arresting our collective hopes, desires and fears.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Phoebe Hart
Blue Blood on the Boulevard
Blue Blood on the Boulevard is a short story highlighting the light and shade of a neighborhood; the sociable, family-orientated neighbor on one side and the cheating, scheming one on the other – with horrific consequences.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Michael Boland
The Red That's Left Behind
The house on the corner has an eccentric paint job. Who's behind it?
- 2012
- 03:00
- Lynne Segal
- Paul Exarhos
- Zac Cranko
The Color of Somebody's Skin
My neighbor Eddy Jr. shares his love and lament for the neighborhood he's called home all his life.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Andy Mills
Red Beeps
A recollection of my aunt's past and current home.
- 2012
- 02:24
- Aaron Arreguin
Fire Engine Red
This is a story about getting to know your neighbour, when your neighbour is a sound.
- 2012
- 02:34
- Veronica Simmonds