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.
Hot Lips
Hot Lips was my role model.
- 2007
- 02:58
- Yuko Kodama
Buddhist Mice
Buddhist teachings and mouse death.
- 2007
- 02:53
- Karen Michel
Feisty Mama
A daughter finds an old picture of her mother and sees her mother differently.
- 2007
- 02:44
- Melissa Canciller
Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
A radio producer deals with a case of 'broadcaster's block' by asking the question "What would Johnny do?"
- 2006
- 02:34
- Kent Hoffman
Little Voices, Far Far Away
Context is a bitch -- just ask mice. On earth they're seen as pests and carriers of disease, but space is another story altogether.
- 2007
- 03:03
- Anne Glickman
- Jennifer Brandel
Ayla
Here's a story of newness and wonder and remembering experience before language.
- 2007
- 02:53
- WJ Carlton
The Angel and the Mourning Cloak
Chance encounters on an April morning show it's the little things in life that can make all the difference.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Jim Barfuss
Elizabeth's Mug
Elizabeth sits at her kitchen table, contemplating a recent coworker's gift and wrestling with the advice it gives her.
- 2007
- 02:57
- Dirk van der Duim
An Orchestra of Bicycles
Richard Lerman reflects on Travelon Gamelon, a piece he wrote in 1970 for amplified bicycles.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Rene Gutel
The Assassin's Bell
A young Soviet 'Pioneer' (i.e. boy scout) squares off with the CIA -- will he live to tell the tale?
- 2007
- 03:04
- Charles Maynes
Gone Mousin'
In the Last Frontier, sometimes it isn't "Go Fish," it's "Go Mouse."
- 2007
- 02:59
- Rebecca Sheir
Living off the Land
A Labor Day homage to women.
- 2007
- 02:43
- Nanette Drake Oldenbourg
'Til Death Do Us Part
2006 ShortDocs Winner! Producer Sasha Aslanian's divorced parents listen to audio of their 1963 wedding vows, remember what went wrong, but still can't get over each other.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Sasha Aslanian
Au Debut
2006 ShortDocs Winner! Translation -- Sylvain, Bruno, Zoe, and Youssef at the PRIM Centre in Montreal, summer 2006.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Zoe Irvine
Boris the Mover
2006 ShortDocs Winner! A crush on a telemarketer results in betrayal.
- 2006
- 02:35
- Carma Jolly
Talk to Me About Love
2006 ShortDocs Winner! Two curious siblings finally get what they think they've always wanted.
- 2006
- 02:30
- David Whitcomb
- Jill Dorothy Summers
The First Attraction
The myth of Narcissus reimagined: the north pole of a magnet bar falls tragically in love with the north pole of another magnet bar.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Bruce Wallace
- Lawrence Lanahan
Mother Love
A woman decides to sober up for her daughter.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Shannon Quinn
Oakiedale Train
An historic train puts on the grease paint and starts serving murder mysteries.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Ceil Muller
99 Fluffys
Fluffy is a mysterious creature surrounded by bees and sweets but confronted by a hysterical mechanical animal which initially causes some angst in the surreal world of imagined adventures of Fluffy.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Alice McNamara
Stood There Ringing
A pregnant woman lets a bell say everything she can't.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Megan Stielstra
- Shiow-Jiau Yung
Charlie: Boston's Freedom Fighter
A call for the folk hero of a 1948 protest song to rise up against the misuse of his name, which is being slathered across the very thing he fought against.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Kristopher Carter
Deep-Fried Gravy
Mabel and Dexter prove that one can experience culture clash and true love simultaneously.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Amy Pickett
- Chip Bradley
Ligeti Was in My Apartment
What happened when Ligeti's ghost helped me create a sound piece.
- 2006
- 02:32
- Jeffrey Letterly
Courtney and Catherine
Two girls don't see eye to eye on what defines a bright future.
- 2006
- 02:42
- Katie Day Good