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.
That Close
Montreal's Royal Park is the backdrop to a woman's memories and the place where she is most at home.
- 2008
- 03:02
- Eva Boodman
The Haymarket Incident
One teenager changes my perspective about a significant event in labor (and U.S.) history.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Rehman Tungekar
Tree Body
Three children talk of how trees are good control of body and mind, recite poetry about trees, call out tree names, and make all kinds of lovely unexpected connections.
- 2008
- 02:46
- Alix Blair
Government! Hold My Hand . . .
A satirical collision of Indiana history and standardized testing.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Zachary Baiel
Silvergirl
It's not made of Plexiglass, it's not made of fiberglass, it's not square.
- 2008
- 02:56
- Julie Caine
- Lisa Morehouse
A Now Famous Tree
When spontaneous young sexual drives mingle in the shade of a tree, a unique and mysterious relationship is seeded.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Lynn Thompson
How I Got the Facts on China
A cold-war son becomes a new-millenium dad.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Wayne Peter Liebman
Misplaced Memories
When you get rid of things, you never know what you are truly giving up, so keep everything.
- 2008
- 03:00
- David Green
Pills
A weekend away begets new interactions, with a little help from Andrew Jackson.
- 2008
- 03:01
- Cambra Moniz-Edwards
If It Hurts, You Breathe Faster
Buffalo resident Kathy Mecca has been resisting a proposed expansion of the Peace Bridge that threatens to destroy residential homes, architecturally important buildings, and mature trees in a neighborhood that has higher than average rates of asthma.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Fereshteh Toosi
Traveling and Trees
How trees affect me as a photographer.
- 2008
- 03:04
- Pauline Kochanski
Trees Die for the Sins of Our Legislators
Of cheeseburgers, the Reagans, Grant Park and, of course, trees.
- 2008
- 02:44
- Kay Collins
The Persistence of Ephemera
A slighty wacky look at my own ephemera collection.
- 2008
- 02:52
- Ceil Muller
The Big Meeting
Lorene decides to make real English marmalade for a meeting being held by striking maritime workers in her town.
- 2008
- 02:09
- Catherine Halley
- Wendy Jo Carlton
The Highway 57 Breakdown in Three-Part Harmony
Busting out, breaking down, success, failure, positive thinking, and finding the right trailer hitch.
- 2008
- 02:58
- Dan Zellner
Teen Mind
We all should do some work on our brains, but that "work" can be a load of fun, oh yeah.
- 2008
- 02:55
- Frank Karall
Govern the Ganglia
A found poem -- all text from chosen books.
- 2008
- 02:55
- Ken Cormier
The Big Strike!
When a venerable neighborhood tree is struck down its loss is felt by all the residents on the street, but sometimes nature has its reasons.
- 2008
- 02:57
- Sarah Bernath
Nerve Machine
Assailed by doubts, fears and illusions on all sides, the warfare within our bodies is a silent one.
- 2008
- 02:17
- Karen Werner
- Victoria Estok
I Would Like to Introduce You to My Mom
This is an ode to my mother and to all the similarities between us that I'm learning to embrace with the help of Tommy James and the Shondells.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Molly Adams
Every Morning I Hear This Voice...
A cultural detective searches out a singing stranger and in the process finds out how prayer affects a young man's life.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Mikkel Nedergaard
Two Libraries
A quiet eavesdropper gets more than he bargained for at the public library.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Noah Levinson
I dream of rattlesnakes
A contemplation of the return of rattlesnakes to Massachusetts.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Todd Wemmer
- Sam Wemmer
- Belle Wemmer
Misfire
Misfire is an experimental sound piece that blends 1940s Dr. Pepper radio ads, original violin music, and sounds of thirst and thirst-quenching.
- 2003
- 04:16
- Paul Frey
- Sarah Varney
Scared
2008 ShortDocs Winner! The bittersweet fear of watching your child grow up.
- 2008
- 03:00
- John Biewen