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.

Greenness Envy

It's a terrible, beautiful affliction, with no known cure.

2012
03:00
Eileen Heyes

Black and Blue, Not Pink

Every week, my roommate Olivia goes to the gym down the street to punch people and while she may be like one of the guys when she's in the ring, friends and family don't quite understand.

2012
02:55
Lindsey Kratochwill

Aphrodite's Black and Blues

Try to understand where people are coming from before you decide about them.

2012
03:00
Diedra Roesijadi

The Tyranny of the Orange Ticket

Twice a week, New York City car owners participate in a bizarre ritual that pits neighbor against neighbor in a competitive fight for parking spaces.

2012
02:41
Elizabeth Harball

A Silent Tornado. A Long, Black Night.

Virginia Miller and her husband Tim recount the night a tornado hit Apison, Tenn., and how it changed their relationship with their neighbors.

2012
02:14
Mary Helen Miller

Her Beautiful Brown Burden

Little did I know that my neighbor has a special gift, which I'd like to call a beautiful brown burden.

2012
03:01
Ashley Kim

Shades of Blue

Martha White interviewed her friend Jessica Chapin at Santa Monica's Step Up on Second, a psychosocial rehabilitation and support program for people affected by severe and persistent mental illness.

2012
03:00
Sara Harris

How Chicago Hip Hop Went Platinum

The unlikely story of one man's role in the rise of Chicago hip hop.

2012
03:02
Sophia Posnock

Yellow Beaks, Black Feathers, Red Blood

It's bloody, it's loud, and it smells like manure — Madani Halal is an unlikely gathering place, yet dozens of New Yorkers flock to the Queens business daily

Coffee and Cream

A Nigerian woman discusses how science and coffee have provided stability amidst all her struggles.

2012
03:01
David Hovar

Missing White Cat

When our cat, Cake, went missing, we immediately suspected our elderly neighbor, Mary.

2012
03:00
Sarah Bromer

Control the Blue

I visited my old elementary school and went to an art class full of second graders .

2012
02:58
Stephen Key

Hearing Red

We explore the subtle effects of noise pollution on our daily lives.

2012
02:39
Andy Cox

The Purple and the White: What's up with Talley's Alley?

The first in an occasional audio documentary series exploring the history, people, places and traditions of North Shore Country Day School (NSCDS) in Winnetka, IL.

2012
02:59
David Green

The Commons Green

A homeless man is a modern day town crier in downtown Boston.

2012
03:00
Katharine Broida

Rear Window, Black & White, 1954

Hitchcock's Rear Window revisited through my own rear window.

2012
02:52
Caterina Clerici

Gold Dust

What is the most expensive thing in the world?

2012
03:00
Laurence Yeung

Look Toward the Blue

As a new resident of one of the oldest neighborhoods in Portland, Maine, I set out one day armed with a recorder and mic in hopes of meeting some of my new neighbors.

2012
03:00
Laura Candler

Shadows of Grey in the Corner of Your Eye: Your Universe is Not My Universe

Cities are crowded, busy places, so crowded and so busy that parallel universes can occupy the same spaces, and when they overlap, it can be problematic, or even catastrophic.

2012
03:01
Kimberly Haas

Revived Ivory: A Musical Instrument Lending Library

Sometimes, the greatest musical treasures are in our own backyard.

2012
03:00
Chris Trimmer

Some White Noise

Navid, my little neighbor.

2012
02:16
Kim Fox

The Invisible Neighborhood - The Making and Unmaking of Home

A voice collage with the words and ideas of three of my neighbors currently living near a peninsula that is about to be developed for a new minor league basketball arena, hotel, parking garage, and possibly even a nature trail in Portland, Maine.