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.
Chain of Missing Links - 26
This audio story is about seeking happiness away from home.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Kajsa Kvaale
All You Need is a Wall (I Too, Sing America)
A high school teacher imagines what might happen when poet Langston Hughes, in his poem "I, Too, Sing America," has a chance to leave the kitchen he's confined to and actually sit at the table when company comes.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Adam Kampe
All You Need is a Wall (The Infamous Elevator Story)
The close quarters of an elevator make for a particularly suffocating ride after someone, um, passes gas. If only there was a gas mask on board, or a protective wall to block or at least deflect the pungent odor.
- 2010
- 02:52
- Adam Kampe
I Didn't Know That (I Was an Albino)
Thomas Bryant Jr. grew up as an African-American with albinism in Washington D.C. during the civil rights movement--a very complicated time to be in between.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Stephanie Foo
A Cold Freezin Night - 11
Jay came with me to a whiskey convention thinking that he was going to have a blast...but someone from his past throws his night into a painful meditation on love and whiskey.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Stephanie Foo
All You Need is a Wall (of Noise)
A personal account of Hendrick's adjustment to a hearing impairment, causing him to navigate a world of unwanted sound, is arranged with interviews of two friends recounting a noisy concert experience to help create a perception of what it's like to live behind a wall of noise.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Chris Trimmer
Wake Up/Spring Strut
Springtime teases awake a hibernating soul in order to experience it's holy wonders.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Sara Curtis