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.
I Didn't Know That...(a different kind of romance)
Kaitlin and her recorder sitting in a tree...with Kelly the herbalist discussing the possibilities of plant-loving.
- 2010
- 03:04
- Kaitlin Prest
I Didn't Know That (You Were a Muslim)
A portrait of how a recent college graduate came to Islam, and the story of what happened when her parents found out she'd converted.
- 2010
- 02:55
- Tali Singer
I Didn't Know That - 7
A first- hand account of a strange event overheard on a bus.
- 2010
- 03:02
- Rowan D G Corkill
(I Wish That) I Didn't Know That
Several years after a life-threatening accident, Elizabeth understands what most of us can't.
- 2010
- 02:23
- Jamie Courville
I Didn't Know That Students Had Two Lives
A teacher discovers that one of her students is a murderer and another accidentally misses the killing.
- 2010
- 02:58
- Aaron Sand
I Didn't Know That - 6
I Didn't Know That is a sonic exploration of state-controlled "truths," created almost entirely from appropriated public domain educational and military-training films.
- 2010
- 02:55
- Tom Tenney
I Didn't Know That (Whozaphone)
Shelley seeks solitude with her hand-cranked whozaphone, but instead finds a friend in the Outer Limits.
- 2010
- 03:02
- Lacy Roberts
I Didn't Know That (art)
When an elementary school teacher who has never taken an art class is asked to be a presenter at an art awards ceremony, she enlists the help of students and parents to explain to her what art actually is.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Peggy Keiner
I Didn't Know That - 13
I realized after the fact that this is basically a cover of Aerosmith's "Dream On," for chorus of female voices.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Jennifer Deer
I Didn't Know That - 12
In a small, urban forest hidden inside San Francisco's Tenderloin district, a curious group of nine and ten year old children are learning to sew.
- 2010
- 02:44
- Kendall Taggart
I Didn't Know That - 11
An innocent (?) bystander observes a traffic accident and is surprised by his reaction.
- 2010
- 02:57
- Tony Green
I Didn't Know That (A Short People's History of the United States)
A young rendering of an old story. All contributors between the ages of five and eight.
- 2010
- 03:05
- Stephanie Coleman
I Didn't Know That (I Was an Albino)
Thomas Bryant Jr. grew up as an African-American with albinism in Washington D.C. during the civil rights movement--a very complicated time to be in between.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Stephanie Foo
I Didn't Know That (A Father's Conversion)
A man who would later become a priest describes the day of his conversion.
- 2010
- 01:40
- Tina Antolini
I Didn't Know That (Lost on Lost)
Justin McLachlan talked with some Lost super fans waiting to watch the series finale about all the things he didn't know he didn't know about the show.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Justin McLachlan
I Didn't Know That - 2
Tamzen Moulding didn't know what was really happening behind the illusionary side of showbiz.
- 2010
- 03:06
- Sofia Saldanha
I Didn't Know That (Hell's Calliope)
Antoinette Jacobson, a sculptor from Norwich, VT, demonstrates her "pyrophone" (fire organ) on a chilly October night on the quad at Colby-Sawyer College in New London NH.
- 2010
- 02:46
- Hester L Fuller
I Didn't Know That (about windows)
Megan Williams' friend Lorella talks about the social experiment she conducts on a bus in Milan, Italy each August.
- 2010
- 02:34
- Megan Williams
I Didn't Know That (Why They Make Us Laugh)
A piece which explores the psychological aspects of stand-up comedy and offers insight into the seemingly simple world of the comedian.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Adam Rose-Levy
I Didn't Know That (I was capable)
One man's struggle with himself and his family while trying to maintain his faith in God.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Joe Johnson
I Didn't Know That (about hotel housekeepers)
Learning the A, B, C's of housekeeping.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Mieke Anderson
I Didn't Know That - 4
A sea-side story of what seagulls might eat, or not.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Elena Botkin-Levy
I Didn't Know That (Un Hombre, su Perro, su Caballo, y Cielo)
Field recordings of a Peruvian Pentecostal church service were used as a base for this piece, with which samples from The Books were incorporated in support of the narration of a spanish folk tale about the nature of heaven and best friends.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Jesse Ricke
I Didn't Know That (I'd Have a Child)
For most of her life, Caitlin didn't want to have children, but after thirteen years with Devin and a change of heart, she is expecting a son.
- 2010
- 02:57
- Michael De Bonis
I Didn't Know That (An Artist's Story)
A young husband and father leaves behind the (relative) security of his corporate cubicle to pursue life as a full-time artist.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Diane Bock