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 (El Pájaro Volador)
Spanish guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Rosalia Roio talks about her Pájaro Volador ("Flying Bird"), one of her many homemade instruments built from recycled objects.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Brendan Baker
Chain of Missing Links - 35
After learning of the bike shop's impending eviction, R.U.B.A.R.B. (Rusted Up Beyond All Recognition Bikes) volunteers share their memories and discuss possible future locations.
- 2010
- 02:43
- Milissa Orzolek
Chain of Missing Links (and beyond)
Beginning is always a challenge but thoughts once thought unconnected create a story.
- 2010
- 02:39
- Dixie Treichel
Chain of Missing Sounds
A sonic piece about the absence of sonicness.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Caleb Winebrenner
Caught Red-Handed
Someone's been smoking in my building, and I want them to stop.
- 2012
- 03:02
- Chris Berube
The Commons Green
A homeless man is a modern day town crier in downtown Boston.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Katharine Broida
Control the Blue
I visited my old elementary school and went to an art class full of second graders .
- 2012
- 02:58
- Stephen Key
Crimson Cries, Blue Echoes
A neighborhood rooster searches for his lost mate and awakens fresh grief.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Mary T. Diorio Schilling
Coffee and Cream
A Nigerian woman discusses how science and coffee have provided stability amidst all her struggles.
- 2012
- 03:01
- David Hovar