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.

Shaq + Kobe (Time Is Running Out)

This piece retells (and remixes) the NBA soap opera of Shaq + Kobe in an audio cartoon created with the on-the-court assistance of the talented Kevin Smith and amplified by music from Shaquille O'Neal, sampled game sounds, and press conference audio clips taken wildly and egregiously out of context.

Zelda vs Ernest

A virtual verbal boxing match between literature's leading man of men and feisty feminist flapper Zelda Fitzgerald.

A Bug in the Works

Found tape diary of a family holiday recorded for Grandma and Grandpa; a six-legged intruder spoils the fun.

School Mothers

While their daughters play on the school playground, two women become acquainted and share tales of sex and marriage gone awry.

I Don't Know. I Know.

To begin, restating rules is used to avoid actually following rules, just as this more-than-one-sentence description avoids the request for a single sentence through the misuse of the semi-colon; later, mundane answering machine messages become menacing, as the producer manipulates their meaning with music.

Actionwomen

Audio montage featuring the voices of women protesters and a service man remembering life in the 1980s at Greenham Common, England, a miitary base for American nuclear missiles.

Bike Bell Bandito

A short tale of youth and nostalgia, bringing back past memories of the notorious nerve racking bike bell that we loved -- and mom hated!

Frenchie Movie

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main . . . any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne (1572-1631)

Instant Coffee

A son remembers a woman who loved instant coffee and who may or may not have enjoyed being a housewife.