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.
Forest to Desert
2008 ShortDocs Winner! An audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert." Forest versus city / tree versus car / then versus now.
- 2008
- 02:35
- Sarah Boothroyd
The Searchers (Based on a True Story)
2008 ShortDocs Winner! Where do lost stories go? Potato pancakes are involved.
- 2008
- 03:06
- David P. Earle
Is That My Imagination?
2008 ShortDocs Winner! The story of a mind on strike.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Meghan Vigeant
The Great Tree Strike of 1934
A record of one of the most significant cultural events of New Zealand's forgotten history.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Shaun D. Wilson
Lucky Star
When you are taking risks and you don't know it's risky, and pushing boundaries when you don't know they are boundaries, it's good to be lucky.
- 2008
- 02:55
- Julia Grant
Creative Process
An entry about making a contest entry.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Kay Collins
Labor Pains
Whether it's societal progress or a squiggly 11-pound miracle, getting there isn't always pretty.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Rich Halten
Control of Swimsuit and Mind
Kathleen Goldhar was asked to go out and try on the latest in swimsuit technology: the LZR Racer, made by Speedo, which is VERY form-fitting, and VERY hard to get into.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Kathleen Goldhar
The Control of Teenagers
The Control of Teenagers dances on the corpse of self-help publishing;
- 2008
- 02:41
- Michael Hearst
- Rick Moody
Retro Rhetoric: Becoming More Becoming
How to make your dreams of happiness come true.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Sarah Boothroyd
Upon the Black Top Sea
Joe escapes in his trailer alone but this time he has a visitor.
- 2008
- 02:31
- Mary Mazurek
Two Trailer Love Stories
A young woman and a married couple look back on trailer-style good times.
- 2008
- 03:04
- Meagan Perry
Cicatrix
"Cicatrix" resonates in regenerative acts, resiliency, rootedness, and irreparably damaged nerves as it tries to imagine one woman's language of war.
- 2008
- 02:51
- Joan Schuman
Flying Dream Sequence
The tale of a recurring dream.
- 2008
- 02:37
- Matt Fleeger
Matt and Bart Sleep in the Airstream
A sketch comedy short in the style of my weekly radio show, which features my co-host Bart and me in zany situations.
- 2008
- 02:43
- Matt Fleeger
The Unsustainable Age
A History Channel-style short told from the 23rd century.
- 2008
- 02:58
- Matt Fleeger
Summer Snow in Moscow
Every summer it snows in Moscow -- because of sexually frustrated trees? What do you know about the sexuality of the poplar tree?
- 2008
- 03:00
- Anastasia Gorokhova
- Daniela Hannemann
- Sasha Fomichev
The Woman in the Tree
Here's a story along the theme of "ephemera" - things that were not built to be around for long.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Kathryn Born
A Transgender Childhood
Growing up isn't easy - when you feel as if your mind is one gender, and your body another.
- 2008
- 03:03
- Tina Antolini
Trees for Economic and Social Justice
This piece explores the connections between social justice, activism, and citizenship, and questions the best way to make the world a better place.
- 2008
- 02:52
- Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Six Minutes
A motorcyclist hits the only tree standing in an otherwise empty field.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Katie Ball
That Tragic Night
Survivors recount the sinking of the Titanic.
- 2008
- 02:31
- Catie Talarski
In Order to Remember
Stories, photos, tape . . . all ways of recording, of trying to preserve, that which is so ephemeral to begin with: our memories.
- 2008
- 02:56
- David Graham
- Sue Mell
Sending Books to Africa
A surreal tale about book donations, whitefish salad, and trans-atlantic journeys.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Sarah Yahm
Misguided Meditation
A guided meditation spoof for all those searching for enlightenment, but who don't know where to find it.
- 2008
- 03:02
- Sarah L'Estrange