2010 ShortDocs Challenge: Book Odds
THE CREATIVE PARTNER
For the 2010 ShortDocs Challenge we teamed up with The Books, IOHO one of the most inventive and creative bands making music today.
THE THEME
The Book Odds challenge was inspired by the use of sampled sound in The Books' music. With the help of Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong we chose eight audio samples from their vast library of sonic offerings, and four song titles from their record The Way Out, to get the creative cogs turning.
THE RULES
Each ShortDoc had to:
- include at least two of the samples from The Books' "sample bucket"
- be named after one of the four song titles we chose
THE RESULTS
141 Book Odds were submitted from 14 countries. Four were chosen as the 2010 ShortDocs, and were presented, with producers and The Books on-hand, during the opening session of the 2010 Third Coast Conference.
Listen to the winners below, and hear all the submissions in our audio library.
All You Need is a (Separation Barrier)
2010 ShortDocs Winner! From Baghdad to Western Sahara, an alphabetic listing of the world's prominent separation barriers builds a wall of its own.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Niall Farrell
(Bicycle) Chain of Missing Links
2010 ShortDocs Winner! An 80-day bicycle trip from New York City to Seattle, camping and recording along the way, condensed into three minutes.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Matt Purdy
A Cold Freezin Night (for Doomed Lovers)
2010 ShortDocs Winner! I said this is NUTS, and he agreed.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Andrea Silenzi
All You Need is a Wall - 16
2010 ShortDocs Winner! In 2004, a group of Pride Day revellers gathered for a party on Creighton Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia and were treated to a riveting display of hermaphroditic slug sex.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Frances Willick