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.
Why Not?
I met Why Not? while searching for 78RPM records of traditional Saing Waing music in Myanmar.
- 2015
- 02:57
What Darko Said
My Burmese friend Darko teaches us that pop music in Myanmar is defined by the cover song.
- 2015
- 03:00
What is a Food Desert?
Using the poetry and commentary of Kuumba Lynx (a Chicago-based hip hop coalition) this sound art piece investigates how institutional disinvestments in Chicago's South Side communities have affected its residents' nutritional health.
- 2015
- 02:21
- Justin Zullo
What-er
Experimenting with sound, lots to be found.
- 2015
- 02:02
- Bishnu Khatiwada
When is there nothing to see?
Sometimes attention to detail is not part of the job description.
- 2015
- 02:57
- Kenneth Knapik
- Spivey Knapik
Where Do We Go...
Audio impression of racial tensions.
- 2015
- 02:56
- Catie Talarski
What will she read tonight?
Three of the founders of the Women's Prison Book Project in Minneapolis talk about their memories and experiences in the early years.
- 2015
- 02:55
- Dixie Treichel
Quien soy yo, Quien era yo, Quien será él (Who I am, Who I was, Who He Will Be)
Jimmy Arteaga, a street juggler from Ecuador, reflects on his childhood and his child.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Sayre Quevedo
What do you think?
Studs Terkel put to music.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Dave Langton
When did I get turned around?
An exploration of the cacophony and cyclical nature of life.
- 2015
- 02:25
- Tom Harrison
What Happened to the Pencil Case?
A small metal box comes to represent loss.
- 2015
- 02:53
What was your first love?
A teenage girl recounts freshly ended first love.
- 2015
- 02:55
- Michaela Prell
Where are all the flowers from?
A little seaside town on the West Coast of Ireland wears floral posies for the children of Gaza.
- 2015
- 02:58
- Ellen Cranitch
When does life begin?
Two women go to the hospital with pain in their stomach but each one is on a very different journey.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Adriana Cargill
Why did you cut your hair?
The humour, the pain, and the liberation of a simple haircut.
- 2015
- 02:44
- Alison Broverman
- Veronica Simmonds
What was it like meeting JFK?
Interview with my grandma Jane about when she met JFK and how his assassination affected her.
- 2015
- 02:58
- Ellie Nakayama
Why Are You Wearing Roadkill?
The remarkable hat worn by a man on a park bench in Santa Fe plaza begs an explanation.
- 2015
- 02:47
- Siohban McHugh
Where do pigeons go when they die?
There are so many pidgeons in London, but why do you never see a dead one?
- 2015
- 02:59
- Chris Pearson
- Catherine Brinkworth
Who works harder than this immigrant?
Zamina, originially from Trinidad, is a seamstress by day and a restauranteur by night.
- 2015
- 02:00
- @Jenniferpossible
Who I Was and Why I Was
In 1968 a young art student accepts what turns out to be a very strange commission to make a painting.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Stephen Rowe and Mike Massey
What was left?
Morgan Lennon describes a kind of loss that is not uncommon to women, though rarely spoken about.
- 2015
- 02:54
- Indaia Whitcombe
What's in a name?
One man decides the best way to break from the past is to change his name.
- 2015
- 03:07
- David Chong
Where You Live?
A meditation on the perceptions of Chicago as a violent city.
- 2015
- 03:00
- David Dault
What's happening to me?
An unwelcome visitor and a meeting in the desert.
- 2015
- 03:01
- Edgar Maddicott
What Lies in a Voicemail?
We can measure distance in miles, but the heartache it causes is indefinable.
- 2015
- 03:00