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.
Whitey's Rules
Residents of a quiet Santa Monica apartment building remember their neighbor, Charlie -- also known as notorious Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger -- in this darkly comic piece.
- 2012
- 02:54
- Eric Drachman
- Gideon Brower
Faded Red Valentines
College students in my dorm recount how their parents met.
- 2012
- 02:54
- Bianca Giaever
Battleship Grey
This is the story of why you should never, ever, ever paint your balcony battleship grey.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Danielle Nerman
Loving Charcoal
A portrait of Anna, who lives one floor below me, and her hamster.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Yarn AudioWorks
All Grown Up Blues
A portrait of a mother and daughter, born forty years apart.
- 2012
- 02:52
- Yarn AudioWorks
Purple Purpose
FNSS (Friendly Neighborhood Surveillance System) delivers a report to Charles on Mrs. Smotherson, Mr. Eggerly, and Bruce & Denny.
- 2012
- 02:21
- Zachary Baiel
We Do Know There's a Red Shelf in Their Living Room
How little we know of the people who share our roof.
- 2012
- 02:22
- Alison Broverman
The Gray Wisteria of Gilman Terrace
When we bought our dream fixer-up home on Gilman Terrace, my husband and I knew that it came with sad past--but we weren't prepared, when we unlocked the door, to find a house full of someone else's life.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Katherine Perry
White Gold--Fridge Politics of a Student House
A look at what happens when nine individuals have to share one small fridge, and the challenges and issues that come up as a result.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Chris Pearson
Black Coffee
A personal musing about estrangement and its effects on language, cultural identity, and the meaning of home.
- 2012
- 02:05
- Joanne Lam
Man With a Blue Truck
Who knew a hit and run could end in friendship?
- 2012
- 03:00
- Eve Abrams
A Dash of Eastern Grey
A discussion amongst neighbors one late night at the non-stop market on the corner street.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Mara Maracinescu
Out of the Blue
A college student describes the two sides of herself in her struggle with bipolar disorder.
- 2012
- 02:55
- Bianca Giaever
Red, White, and Black With Little Bit of Gold
The nature of the current relationships between neighbors in Egypt and how it changed from how it used to be in the past.
- 2012
- 02:21
- Gehad Mahmoud
Miracle in Gray and White
Neighbors investigate an apparition.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Katie Klocksin
Glass, Not Glitter
2012 ShortDocs Winner! Neighbors of the Murrah Federal building recall the 1995 bombing that altered the life and culture of Oklahoma City.
- 2012
- 02:54
- Abby Wendle
Redbricks and Weatherboards
I've lived in Melbourne's suburban inner west for five years, walked my street of redbricks and weatherboards every day, but never stopped to listen until now. This is my street.
- 2012
- 02:58
- Jaye Kranz
The Black Dog: If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going
A simple neighborly gesture means a lot, in a time of need.
- 2012
- 02:46
- Mairéad Cullen
- Michael McNamara
Dancing Away the Teaching Blues
Life experiences told by my neighbor and colleague: Chris Nho, the breakdancing math teacher.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Julie Ma
The Gray Area
After a grueling 35 min dance entitled "Little Mortal Jump" by Alejandro Cerrudo, resident choreographer of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, dancers Kevin Shannon and Alice Klock reflect on not only their young love duet but the thoughts that cross their mind after the lights have gone out.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Luke Kyp-Johnson
- Quinlan Kyp-Johnson
Red Brick Houses
Here's a conversation with my 92 year-old neighbor Liza about how our neighborhood has changed since 1959, with "Mack the Knife" played on ukelele by fellow neighbor Tom Bassett.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Carol Spindel
The Wine-Dark Sea
Homer's Odyssey re-imagined through my neighbors' experiences on the wine-dark sea.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Whitney Jones
Mike Schmidt on a Purple Bike
Old friends and newly neighbors, Andy and Amanda stalk their Brooklyn block to uncover the mystique of a neighborhood legend who curiously resembles one of baseball's greatest Hall of Famers.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Amanda Culkowski
- Andrew Trimbach
Logan Square's Brown Bread Underground
On one block in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, an unnamed baker whips up artisan sourdoughs to sell to his neighbors.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Annie Minoff
Crown the King: Red Takes Black
2012 ShortDocs Winner! One block from Adam Kampe's apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Razor gather to trash talk over heated games of checkers.
- 2012
- 02:32
- Adam Kampe