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.
What does smart working mean?
In and out about working nowadays [in Italian!]
- 2015
- 02:52
- Alessia Rapone
What was it about marriage anyway?
A distilled conversation between Erica Jong and Studs Terkel, remixed with music.
- 2015
- 02:49
- Austin Mitchell
Threat Level: Red Light
Looking down the block on a street in east Africa, one can see much farther than one might expect.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Jefferson Mok
Murder at the Abandoned Red Paint Factory
A neighbor is murdered, but the other neighbors can't figure out who he was.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Laura Mayer
What Do You Need to Know?
The bread guys pay a visit to a busy Brooklyn deli.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Ilya Marritz
The Gulf
How can we make sense of the communication and resource problems identified long before Hurricane Katrina that led to such tragic consequences for many residents of New Orleans?
- 2006
- 02:30
- Christine McKenna
Christmas With Grandma
With Grandma, things start bad and get worse.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Ken Cormier
O Happy Dagger
A man and his dagger part ways after the dagger has second thoughts.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Allison Schuette-Hoffman
Missing
June and Alison are missing . . .
- 2006
- 02:30
- Shannon Quinn
Niiimogmoa!!
After one year of social work experience: autism / misuse / to society.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Martin Kolber-Jaskulski
Just Read My Cards
Rude tarot card reader gets really angry.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Briana O'Higgins
Stupidity Realized
Drummer relates previous evening's adventures with keyboard-playing brother.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Nic Beery
Next Message
Mike won't return Alexander's messages.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Thelon Oeming
. . . Cos It's Not
Please hear what I don't say...
- 2006
- 02:33
- Grace Yoon
They Didn't Get Along
An inquiry into the nature of human relationships over the course of eons, featuring musical accompaniment in diverse time signatures, and a British narrator.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Michael Hearst
- Rick Moody
The Yakuza Codes
Will Midori and her brother Yoshitoro overcome their antipathies and meet again?
- 2006
- 02:32
- Christian Gasser
Train Wars
Jayne Fenton Keane talks with India's former Socialist Defence Minister, Mr. George Fernandes, and former President of the Socialist Party of India, Ms. Jaya Jaitley, about the Railway Strikes of 1975 that brought down Sonia Ghandi's government.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Jayne Fenton Keane
And I Think There Is Something There That Will Stand the Rain
A woman remembers the most important person in her life.
- 2006
- 01:59
- Lee Fuoco
Where My Ears Have Been
Composed from sounds recorded during a residency at the National Science and Technology Museum, Taiwan, this is a story about communication.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Jayne Fenton Keane
The Secret Life of an Australian Mother
Domestic duet for mother and six year old.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Eurydice Aroney
- Stuart Brown
- Tom Morton
Respectacle
Children in a behavior program speak up about respect, against the metaphorical soundscape of the Institution.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Susan B. Price
This Was a Crucial Place
A former inmate (John McCullough), a former guard (Donald Vaughn) and Steve Buscemi guide the listener through 1960's prison reform via the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA.
- 2006
- 03:04
- Peter Crimmins
Levitating Stone
In a small village in India, a 90 KG stone levitates when the name of sufi saint Qamar Ali Dervish is chanted.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Jeanette Werkhoven
As if -- or, 99 Minus 1
As if / to discuss the world / John Cage / Joseph Beuys
- 2006
- 02:30
- Jean-Claude Kuner
Natalie, Alone, in New York
A woman tries to come to terms with a breakup and a package of bacon.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Sue Mell