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.

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A Transgender Childhood

Growing up isn't easy - when you feel as if your mind is one gender, and your body another.

2008
03:03
Tina Antolini

A Now Famous Tree

When spontaneous young sexual drives mingle in the shade of a tree, a unique and mysterious relationship is seeded.

2008
02:59
Lynn Thompson

Ad Absurdum

A herd of marketing hits, cliches and platitudes, featuring a chorus of cats and two pounds of Velveeta.

2008
02:58
Sarah Boothroyd

A Tail of Two Mice, or, Dry Sponge Cake

The love between two mice turns soar with a lacl of cheese whip and an encounter with a time warp mousetrap.

2007
02:59
Catie Talarski

American Dream

The mice have invaded and are having some R and R... so I might as well help them enjoy themselves.

2007
02:36
Chris Angelos

A Time to Tip

The courageous story of one coffee mug trying to get by in a house of people he hates. (Writing from the perspective of the mug in the first person, present tense.)

2007
02:58
David Hain

An American Tail

Cats and mice, peace and war, Russia and the USA -- do you still believe in these oppositions?

2007
02:32
Anastasia Ivanova

Are You Sure?

A look at the age old dilemma -- the unexpected pregnancy, and a peek into how today's busy, independent woman approaches the unexpected news.

2008
03:00
Carrie Shepherd

Avant Guardian

The Avant Guardian fights crime using the power of surrealism and his trusty P.S.M.G.

2007
03:00
David Weinberg

All You Need is a Wall (or Rat Shootin')

A micro-doc of a man's love of shootin' rats, while absorbing the laid back city life from his back porch.

2010
03:00

And I Walked...Stories From the Border

Much of the Sonoran desert between Tucson and Mexico is a haunting wasteland of discarded shoes, shirts, and empty plastic water jugs, discarded by desparate illegal immigrants who risk their lives as they cross the desert from Mexico into the United States in search of better-paying jobs.

A Cold Freezin Night - 15

A detective story. "There was a murder of a young man, who had three mistresses. Which of them is a murderer?"

The Ambassador of Go

Most Americans have never heard of Go, an ancient board game that has simpler rules than chess but such complex strategy that computers can't even beat a talented amateur.

2005
05:46
Blake Eskin

A Large, Well-Rounded Head

The strange journey of Walt Whitman's brain, both inside his head, and out.

Au Debut

2006 ShortDocs Winner! Translation -- Sylvain, Bruno, Zoe, and Youssef at the PRIM Centre in Montreal, summer 2006.

2006
02:30
Zoe Irvine

A Sweet Illusion for the Bitter Tuition

Sofia is working on an unusual scholarship.

2013
02:59
Mickey Capper

A Juicy Trip from Bitter to Savory

A milestone birthday inspires an extreme juice quest.

2013
03:00
Sydney Beveridge

A Vegetarian's Umami Dilemma

Katherine was a vegetarian and thought she hated meat -- until she tasted elk.

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

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

A Clothing Frenzied

Ben Zimmerman ran The Books' samples through a sequenced Peavey Pro-Fex, created the track in Ableton, mastered it, ran it through several custom dynamic pitch and time-scaling effects (a different program for each submission) and mastered it again.