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.
First Kiss
You never know what will happen on date night...
- 2016
- 02:53
- Ben Kass
2000 Messages
Robbie, a former lighthouse keeper in Guernsey, thinks he sent as many as 2000 messages out to sea over the years - with some interesting results.
- 2016
- 02:58
- Elisabeth Mahy
It's Coming
Something is coming for a man struggling to survive - is it Spring, Redemption, Revenge or Death?
- 2016
- 02:03
- Chandler Murray
All Saints Bait and Rifle
Hubert copes with depression in a culture of guns: A radio poem.
- 2016
- 02:24
- David Merleau
Spaceman Carl
Captain Sheila gets a little help taming the wild wastes of outer space.
- 2016
- 02:56
- Allison Quantz
- Bethy Squires
- Natalie Bainter
Too Many Miles
What if Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” were re-imagined as a film?
- 2016
- 02:33
- Stephanie Rowden
- Jennifer Metsker
Party of Special Things to Do
A bland, unremarkable, "yes" man goes along with everything and doesn't question social customs.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Aaron Leeder
- Matt Black
The Hunt
Carl Miles is a professional hunter who goes after an innocent deer.
- 2016
- 02:19
- Liana Leite
The Chronicle of a Goodbye Foretold
Harry tells us his chronicle of a foretold goodbye.
- 2016
- 03:02
- Eva Moeraert
One Noir Moment
The story of a relationship with reference to our relationship to the planet.
Written and narrated by James Whitman.
- 2016
- 02:18
- RJ Phoenix
Fish Out of water
An Inuit artist on the ritual that connects him with the childhood he lost, and a culture he longs to remember.
- 2016
- 02:59
- Vanessa Greco
A Series of Deaths in the Octopus Level
This is an adventure that was recorded outside, inside and in-games.
- 2016
- 02:22
- Adriene Lilly
Why Me eM yhW
Darrell finds out that you can't trust anyone. Not even yourself.
- 2016
- 03:00
William Birdman
A London eccentric who feeds parakeets in the park.
- 2016
- 02:58
- Pip Swallow
A Saxophone in the Woods
You don't expect to hear a saxophone walking through the woods, and the encores are unlikely to happen.
- 2016
- 02:45
- Vladimir Kryuchev
Tracy's Lost & Found
When a strange item is left behind in a motel room, a lost & found coordinator is forced to confront her own life's meaning.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Hubby Jenkins
- Horatio Baltz
He Gets His Girl
Barbara & Jim fell in love, got married, and began building their life together, but things didn't turn out exactly as planned.
- 2016
- 02:55
- Abbie Allensen
Bottle Service
Steve the bellhop knows the champagne goes to someone's room on the third floor, but in this hotel of mystery the question remains: who ordered the bubbly?
- 2016
- 03:00
- Allison Quantz
- Natalie Bainter
- Bethy Squires
Tornado Warning
A woman and dog hide out from a storm in her mother's strange basement.
- 2016
- 02:58
- Ellie Gordon-Moershel
Out of Order
A man & his TV crime drama-induced phobia.
- 2016
- 02:41
- La Cosa Preziosa
The Drumming Trip
A famous Romanian music therapist invites his clients deep into the wild where they express their most intimate feelings in a very original way.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Cezar Florea
TAPE_003
A man searches through his tapes looking for a lost memory.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Oliver Morris
The Fringe Door
A meditation on the paradox of connection/disconnection, explored through the eyes, words and minds of two strangers - one in Tokyo and one in Rome.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Dominica Roebuck
Swimmers
A woman pieces together sonic memories and her sense of belonging through swimming.
- 2016
- 02:31
- Michelle Macklem
Behind the Tinted Windows
When it comes to modern-day private investigation, there's more than meets the (private) eye.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Natalie Orenstein
- Kathleen Costanza