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 Mill House Yellow

In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, gentrification advances with a cautionary yellow light as a local property manger paints the town his own special hue.

The Red House on Maple

At the Red House on Maple, ten best friends (including me!) relish in each other's companionship, as the time they have together comes to an end.

On the Orange Dusty Streets

Meet Juma, a Rwandan street boy, whose dream is to become a singer, and Bosco who spends his days fixing broken plastic buckets, casserole pots, shoes, radios and umbrellas to earn a living for his family.

The Purple-Spotted Sock

A story about a neighbour, which turns out also to be a story about another neighbour – and when all comes to all: about the narrator herself.

Grey Areas

Grey Areas is about how close Dave Pickering is to his dad, in a literal sense; it's also a tribute to the the neighbour they buried in his back garden.

Ordinary Brown Frogs

A couple from Amsterdam East talks about the brown frogs they introduced to the neighborhood. (You might find this english transcript handy!)

Recollections Dream in Blue

This audio captures the essence of Matthew Wilmott's internal neighbours - silence and recollections/dreams (per say those that that drift dark and heavy in the mind just before sunrise).

Soft Footsteps Fade to Black

Soft footsteps fade to balck is abstract in relation to the conventional form of neighbours, however flashing thoughts and the path can be seen as comfort akin to the world next door.

Romantic Red Love, But Not in Sweden

With the couple next door constantly fighting and my friends failed marriages in good memory I started to wonder why Sweden seems to fail in loving until death do us part.

Ernie's Green Free Tree

Under Ernie's Free Tree neighbors and passersby pick from the free pile, the last of Ernie Winger's possessions—recycling, laughing, crying, remembering a generous man who began life as a poor cast-off to become a neighborhood treasure.