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.

All You Need is a Wall - 12

A journey of discovery, passion, nature, and conscience.

2010
03:00
Ben Pagac

I Didn't Know That - 10

On a rare sunny day in Seattle, we walk around the neighborhood and learn from strangers what we don't know.

I Didn't Know That (A Short People's History of the United States)

A young rendering of an old story. All contributors between the ages of five and eight.

2010
03:05
Stephanie Coleman

All You Need is a Wall - 13

A meditation on big changes, building walls, and breaking them down again.

2010
03:00
Mia Lobel

Chain of Missing Links - 27

A mother and daughter assess the plight of a neighbor.

I Didn't Know That - 11

An innocent (?) bystander observes a traffic accident and is surprised by his reaction.

2010
02:57
Tony Green

All You Need is a Wall - 14

Dr. Geoffrey Rheaume conducts a tour of the 1860s patient-built wall outside Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

2010
03:05
Linda Besner

Chain of Missing Links (of Art)

What is art? What is an artist? These are questions you need to ask yourself when confronted with Aaron - a computer controlled machine making art.

2010
03:00
Jakob Lisbjerg

Chain of Missing Links (Objects and Their Owners)

This piece is an audio documentary centering on the stories of how people become connected to objects and about how we let these objects go at a garage sale.

2010
03:00
David Keto

I Didn't Know That - 12

In a small, urban forest hidden inside San Francisco's Tenderloin district, a curious group of nine and ten year old children are learning to sew.

2010
02:44
Kendall Taggart

Chain of Missing Links (& More)

Jennifer Brandel Just when you're convinced someone is gone as you knew them...

2010
03:01
Jennifer Brandel

I Didn't Know That (Whozaphone)

Shelley seeks solitude with her hand-cranked whozaphone, but instead finds a friend in the Outer Limits.

2010
03:02
Lacy Roberts

All You Need is a Wall - 15

A young man, lost in sound, finds his way through the wall.

2010
02:55
Alexander Stephens

Chain of Missing Links - 29

A quarky upbeat piece playing with the idea of broadcasting emotions through computer screens and loving each other via satellite.

2010
03:00
Erik Laar

I Didn't Know That - 13

I realized after the fact that this is basically a cover of Aerosmith's "Dream On," for chorus of female voices.

2010
02:59
Jennifer Deer

All You Need is a Wall - 16

2010 ShortDocs Winner! In 2004, a group of Pride Day revellers gathered for a party on Creighton Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia and were treated to a riveting display of hermaphroditic slug sex.

2010
02:59
Frances Willick

Chain of Missing Links - 30

Twin Peaks to Tanzania: an aural stream of conscious.

2010
02:58
Lauren Kirby

All You Need is a Wall - 17

There he stood, stout and smirking, with a handlebar moustache - I felt like he was looking right at me.

2010
02:58
Lauren Kirby

Chain of Missing Links - 31

A young woman takes up knitting and finds an irresistible combination of wool and whiskey, peace and productivity.

Chain of Missing Links - 32

An experimental jam using circuit-bent toys, laptop, and vocoder created at the weekly eSymposium hosted by Patrick McCarthy of Roth Mobot and held at Lizard's Liquid Lounge.

2010
02:47
Steve Schwarz

I Didn't Know That (art)

When an elementary school teacher who has never taken an art class is asked to be a presenter at an art awards ceremony, she enlists the help of students and parents to explain to her what art actually is.