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.
Every Morning I Hear This Voice...
A cultural detective searches out a singing stranger and in the process finds out how prayer affects a young man's life.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Mikkel Nedergaard
Ethiopian Coffee - The Sweet Ritual of Togetherness
Guenet Sebsibe shows how she keeps an important Ethiopian cultural tradition alive.
- 2013
- 02:21
- Anne Huang
- Audrey Dilling
Elevated (Grand Chicago)
An onomatopoetic memory of Chicago.
- 2009
- 02:51
- Aaron Ximm
Eagle 202
The true story of Chris, who thought it would be a fun intellectual challenge to try to write a piece of air traffic control software his company had abandoned -- and what happened next.
- 2006
- 02:32
- Heather Kitching
Evolution
In a piece that captures the history of (aural) technology, text-to-speech engines prove that computers really can befuddle man.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Dennis Conrow
Elizabeth's Mug
Elizabeth sits at her kitchen table, contemplating a recent coworker's gift and wrestling with the advice it gives her.
- 2007
- 02:57
- Dirk van der Duim
Enrich the Sweetness
Mental and physical acts of eating, how are you satisfied?
- 2013
- 02:17
- Carly Kenneally
Eros the Bittersweet: An Edible Riff
An audio prose poem, mixing chocolate with desire.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Richard Fox and Patricia McMillen
Essen, My Sweet
A visit to a Jewish assisted living facility to record memories of what people hunger for over the courses of their lives.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Deena Prichep and Joanna Stein
Ernie's Green Free Tree
Under Ernie's Free Tree neighbors and passersby pick from the free pile, the last of Ernie Winger's possessions—recycling, laughing, crying, remembering a generous man who began life as a poor cast-off to become a neighborhood treasure.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Nancy Camden
East Oakland (in Blue)
East Lake Neighbors wax poetic about their neighborhood mixed in with rhymes from Oakland hip-hop artist DO D.A.T.'s album "Oakland in Blue".
- 2012
- 03:00
- Dash Hay
Everyone Forgets the Grey Horizon
A disgruntled renter writes the landlord.
- 2012
- 02:53
- Jack Gobillot
Eight Beige Floors
A brief look at a neighborhood many have lived in, but no one stays in for long.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Abigail Keel