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.
All You Need is a Wall - 1
Grace De Pass is fascinated with life at the laundromat. Her first trip to one, back in 1964, was particularly memorable.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Jill Strauss
Chain of Missing Links - 16
A conversation between a middle aged man living near the Lincoln tunnel and his new friend Mr. Army.
- 2010
- 56
- Rob Chabebe
A Cold Freezin Night - 7
Eventhough the cold causes fear and loathing in Finland, simplicity is found from the soul of the Finns: Sauna.
- 2010
- 02:09
- Katri Puro
I Didn't Know That (An Artist's Story)
A young husband and father leaves behind the (relative) security of his corporate cubicle to pursue life as a full-time artist.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Diane Bock
I Didn't Know That (I'd Have a Child)
For most of her life, Caitlin didn't want to have children, but after thirteen years with Devin and a change of heart, she is expecting a son.
- 2010
- 02:57
- Michael De Bonis
(Bon Jovi) Didn't Know That
When up and coming pop singer Alison Scott loses the chance to open for Bon Jovi, there's only one person who can help.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Steve Nelson
Chain of Missing Links (A Case of Musical Stairs)
Producers Joanna Stein and Nicole Beemsterboer take their ears underground and find the origin of some mysterious music.
- 2010
- 02:55
- Joanna Stein
- Nicole Beemsterboer
Chain of Missing Links - 14
A story of what might have happened that night in the dark alleyways of the dingy part of Helsinki.
- 2010
- 02:43
- Pauliina Motturi
A Cold Freezin Night - 8
An evening walk gives one man more than he bargained for.
- 2010
- 02:30
- Karen Gollrad
- Liz Bustamante
Chain of Missing Links - 15
In which Calvin reflects on the meaning and measure of fatherhood.
- 2010
- 01:35
- Dan Weissmann
I Didn't Know That (Un Hombre, su Perro, su Caballo, y Cielo)
Field recordings of a Peruvian Pentecostal church service were used as a base for this piece, with which samples from The Books were incorporated in support of the narration of a spanish folk tale about the nature of heaven and best friends.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Jesse Ricke
I Didn't Know That - 4
A sea-side story of what seagulls might eat, or not.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Elena Botkin-Levy
I Didn't Know That (Why They Make Us Laugh)
A piece which explores the psychological aspects of stand-up comedy and offers insight into the seemingly simple world of the comedian.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Adam Rose-Levy
All You Need is a Wall (And I will find a way to walk right into it)
A young woman's attempt at boosting her "street cred" goes horribly, awkwardly wrong.
- 2010
- 02:24
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
I Didn't Know That (about hotel housekeepers)
Learning the A, B, C's of housekeeping.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Mieke Anderson
I Didn't Know That (I was capable)
One man's struggle with himself and his family while trying to maintain his faith in God.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Joe Johnson
A Cold Freezin Night - 6
Every year smokejumpers, or wildland firefighters who parachute into remote areas to fight forest fires, secure their jobs in part by running for it.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Nan Floyd
All You Need is a Wall (or Rat Shootin')
A micro-doc of a man's love of shootin' rats, while absorbing the laid back city life from his back porch.
- 2010
- 03:00
Chain of Missing Links - 17
A brief look at the issue of substance abuse among Alaskan youth.
- 2010
- 02:12
- Max Jungreis
All You Need is 4 Walls
What 9 people need to make their houses feel like home.
- 2010
- 03:00
- V. Dougherty
All You Need is The Wall
Audio collage pieced together from sound effects in Pink Floyd's 1979 album "The Wall."
- 2010
- 02:32
- Chris Sewell
A Cold Freezin Night - 9
It gets cold in the desert at night and sound travels from really far away.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
All You Need is a Wall - 4
An exercise in time condensation, or more simply time travel, in which the cave wall serves as interface between past and present, human and animal, Philip Smith, librarian, reads excerpts from two books about Upper Paleolithic cave art.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Philip Smith
I Didn't Know That - 5
A woman realizes that her partner isn't all she thought he was.
- 2010
- 01:36
- Paul Staunton
- Rachel Ní Chuinn
Chain of Missing Links - 18
A relationship based on missed meetings and message machines.
- 2010
- 01:56
- Paul Staunton
- Rachel Ní Chuinn