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!

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.

White Noise

White Noise is about what happens to the residents when several construction projects invade one block at the same time.

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.