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.
I dream of rattlesnakes
A contemplation of the return of rattlesnakes to Massachusetts.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Todd Wemmer
- Sam Wemmer
- Belle Wemmer
Galactic Gala
What does an alien prom sound like?
- 2016
- 02:35
- Sienna Barstow
Love Means Never Having To Say You're Coleslaw
A group of Cantabrigians reflect on the weekly potluck that brings them together.
- 2016
- 02:07
- Nick Andersen
Party of Special Things to Do
A bland, unremarkable, "yes" man goes along with everything and doesn't question social customs.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Aaron Leeder
- Matt Black
Bottle Service
Steve the bellhop knows the champagne goes to someone's room on the third floor, but in this hotel of mystery the question remains: who ordered the bubbly?
- 2016
- 03:00
- Allison Quantz
- Natalie Bainter
- Bethy Squires
The Hunt
Carl Miles is a professional hunter who goes after an innocent deer.
- 2016
- 02:19
- Liana Leite
The Chronicle of a Goodbye Foretold
Harry tells us his chronicle of a foretold goodbye.
- 2016
- 03:02
- Eva Moeraert
One Noir Moment
The story of a relationship with reference to our relationship to the planet.
Written and narrated by James Whitman.
- 2016
- 02:18
- RJ Phoenix
Fish Out of water
An Inuit artist on the ritual that connects him with the childhood he lost, and a culture he longs to remember.
- 2016
- 02:59
- Vanessa Greco
A Series of Deaths in the Octopus Level
This is an adventure that was recorded outside, inside and in-games.
- 2016
- 02:22
- Adriene Lilly
Why Me eM yhW
Darrell finds out that you can't trust anyone. Not even yourself.
- 2016
- 03:00
William Birdman
A London eccentric who feeds parakeets in the park.
- 2016
- 02:58
- Pip Swallow
A Saxophone in the Woods
You don't expect to hear a saxophone walking through the woods, and the encores are unlikely to happen.
- 2016
- 02:45
- Vladimir Kryuchev
Tracy's Lost & Found
When a strange item is left behind in a motel room, a lost & found coordinator is forced to confront her own life's meaning.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Hubby Jenkins
- Horatio Baltz
He Gets His Girl
Barbara & Jim fell in love, got married, and began building their life together, but things didn't turn out exactly as planned.
- 2016
- 02:55
- Abbie Allensen
Tornado Warning
A woman and dog hide out from a storm in her mother's strange basement.
- 2016
- 02:58
- Ellie Gordon-Moershel
Cloudy the Pigeon
A story of a pigeon that kept returning to a family's home almost like an omen.
- 2016
- 02:59
- Erik Mangrum
Out of Order
A man & his TV crime drama-induced phobia.
- 2016
- 02:41
- La Cosa Preziosa
The Drumming Trip
A famous Romanian music therapist invites his clients deep into the wild where they express their most intimate feelings in a very original way.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Cezar Florea
TAPE_003
A man searches through his tapes looking for a lost memory.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Oliver Morris
The Fringe Door
A meditation on the paradox of connection/disconnection, explored through the eyes, words and minds of two strangers - one in Tokyo and one in Rome.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Dominica Roebuck
Swimmers
A woman pieces together sonic memories and her sense of belonging through swimming.
- 2016
- 02:31
- Michelle Macklem
Behind the Tinted Windows
When it comes to modern-day private investigation, there's more than meets the (private) eye.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Natalie Orenstein
- Kathleen Costanza
Fiddlehead Island
1 goof. 100 internet people. 50 000 fiddleheads.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Johnny Spence
- Veronica Simmonds
The Disappearance of George
The true story of a disappearance in the NDG neighborhood of Montreal.
- 2016
- 03:01
- Tally Abecassis