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.
I Didn't Know That - 8
Sisters Joyce Brilbeck and Kaye Logan share memories about growing up around Ballantyne Road near Onondaga Creek in Syracuse, NY.
- 2010
- 01:45
- Farsheed Toosi
- Fereshteh Toosi
I Didn't Know That (You Were a Muslim)
A portrait of how a recent college graduate came to Islam, and the story of what happened when her parents found out she'd converted.
- 2010
- 02:55
- Tali Singer
A Cold Freezin Night (on which people have the lamest conversation ever)
This is what happens on the last night of the Third Coast Conference, on a cold freezin' October night in 2006, when you put six sleep-deprived radio producers in a hotel room at three o'clock in the morning with cheap pizza, bad recording equipment, and a fair bit of alcohol.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Dennis Conrow
Chain of Missing Links - 20
In a world of billion dollar 'stimulus packages' and Web 2.0 consumer profiling how can you break free of the chains of commerce (and get cheap kicks at the same time)?
- 2010
- 03:00
- Wil Crisp
All You Need is a Wall - 5
Since the 1880s Jews from all around the world have been called to Israel by the symbol of the Western Wall - but now there's a new wall where old friends meet.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Wil Crisp
Chain of Missing Links - 21
Unheard conversations of axons and dendrites.
- 2010
- 01:14
- Foster Gesten
I Didn't Know That (Blindwalking)
It's rather difficult to walk down the street with your eyes closed. But one of us tried to, here is the result.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Andrey Pronin
- Artyom Vysochenko
- Ksenia Donskaya
Chain of Missing Links - 22
A series of archived Craigslist Missed Connections email messages are recorded and re-recorded and with each sent message the message deteriorates.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Jessica Grosman
Chain of Missing Links (for a nervous kitty)
Jenn Hartmann was moving from New York to Los Angeles, but she had to find a way to bring her nervous kitty. Unfortunately, she decided to fly.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Tom Horan
All You Need is a Wall - 6
How to listen to a dance... with a wall.
- 2010
- 03:03
- Jane Cramer
A Cold Freezin night - 10
This song is a story about the magestical feelings and memories related to going fishing as a child.
- 2010
- 02:58
- Devin Hildebrand
- Ross Farbe
All You Need is a Wall - 7
The problems regarding journeying through a metaphorical landscape.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Shaun D. Wilson
- Sonia Yee
Chain of Missing Links - 23
Can you believe there were this many things on top of the ground? Some of them have been worked and are beautiful.
- 2010
- 02:00
- Katherine Wells
All You Need is a Wall - 8
Mike shares the story of his start in the black market after he began dating a hippie woman named Samantha.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Zachary Baiel
Chain of Missing Links (with the Fourth of July)
Recordings of celebration in a distant land.
- 2010
- 02:31
- Zachary Baiel
A Cold Freezin Night (Adventure)
You might imagine the desert to be a cold freezin place at night but not so.
- 2010
- 02:15
- Julien Clancy
I Didn't Know That - 9
A man drives through rural Illinois to find an answer to future questions.
- 2010
- 03:02
- Joe Bruce
- Veronica Soria
A You Need is a Wall - 9
A master clock maker explains why he's devoted his life to the clocks we hang on our walls.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Patrick Skahill
All You Need is a Wall - 10
Writers' block forces an author to reconsider her approach to a lack of inspiration.
- 2010
- 01:42
- Henry Hocking
- Marijke Peters
Chain of Missing Links - 24
The author recalls an incident from the past but wonders how much of it is real in this 3 minute piece about memory, ice cream and Lou Reed.
- 2010
- 03:07
- Ruth Lopez
I Didn't Know That...(a different kind of romance)
Kaitlin and her recorder sitting in a tree...with Kelly the herbalist discussing the possibilities of plant-loving.
- 2010
- 03:04
- Kaitlin Prest
All You Need is a Wall (or, How to Dance in the Moonlight)
The Wall teaches David how to be free--and how to dance.
- 2010
- 03:02
- Sam Greenspan
Chain of Missing Links (of Art)
What is art? What is an artist? These are questions you need to ask yourself when confronted with Aaron - a computer controlled machine making art.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Jakob Lisbjerg
All You Need is a Wall - 11
Divorce brings about unimagined ramifications.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Katie Ball
Chain of Missing Links - 25
The chains that code for our genes only make up 2% of our DNA, which means the purpose of the rest of the stuff is a bit of a mystery....
- 2010
- 02:59
- Henry Hocking
- Marnie Chesterton