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.
Out of Control. Noise.
From children to adults . . .
- 2008
- 02:31
- Alexander Soleev
Of Mice and Music
Tragic kitchen incident inspires manic musings on singing mice.
- 2007
- 03:00
- David Swatling
One Man's Sour is Another Man's Sweet
Maximus Thaler has an interesting relationship with food.
- 2013
- 02:56
- Abigail Collins
- Victoria Bedford
O Happy Dagger
A man and his dagger part ways after the dagger has second thoughts.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Allison Schuette-Hoffman
Ordinary Brown Frogs
A couple from Amsterdam East talks about the brown frogs they introduced to the neighborhood. (You might find this english transcript handy!)
- 2012
- 02:45
- Maartje Duin
Orange Pigeons at the Legion Post
For the first time, I visit the neighborhood skeet shoot at the American Legion Post across the road.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Sam Fuqua
On the Day I Died It Was Mostly Blues
I live next to the Westwood Cemetery in Carrboro, North Carolina and my neighbors are the ghosts who reside there.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Alix Blair
One Way
A woman in a hurry seeks refuge from a storm and finds something in common with the motel attendant.
- 2016
- 03:01
- Marie Lovejoy
One Noir Moment
The story of a relationship with reference to our relationship to the planet.
Written and narrated by James Whitman.
- 2016
- 02:18
- RJ Phoenix
Out of Order
A man & his TV crime drama-induced phobia.
- 2016
- 02:41
- La Cosa Preziosa
One Insomnia To Go, Please!
After a sleepless night, a strong coffee and a walk lead to an unexpected realization.
- 2016
- 02:37
- Sandro Schroeder
Oakiedale Train
An historic train puts on the grease paint and starts serving murder mysteries.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Ceil Muller
One Man's Sour, Another Man's Sweet
Kerry Klein brings reclaimed food to a potluck - and doesn't tell anyone.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Kerry Klein
Old Captain Salt
Dreaming of Old Captain Salt and his sushi boat.
- 2013
- 02:17
- Dixie Treichel
Ooo, Mommy
My name's Julie, and I'm a licorice addict.
- 2013
- 02:28
- Julie Caine
Orangey Brown Meets Yellow and Black
Two neighbors discuss the thing that inspires fear, sweetens our lives, and keeps food on the table.
- 2012
- 02:00
- Emily Eagle
Our Blacktop
A recollection of simpler times with the friends I grew up with.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Noah Vandercook
Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Lutheran?
I challenged my neighbors to a good old fashioned college chant off!
- 2012
- 02:51
- Bradley Campbell
Oh, Where Have You Been, My Blue-Eyed Son?
Liza introduces her new love, Jonah.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Belinda Lopez
On the Orange Dusty Streets
Meet Juma, a Rwandan street boy, whose dream is to become a singer, and Bosco who spends his days fixing broken plastic buckets, casserole pots, shoes, radios and umbrellas to earn a living for his family.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Helene Thomas
Orange Blossom and the Continuous Cut
From Lake Shore Drive to Tokyo... surviving the Continuous Cut.
- 2012
- 00
- John Lietzau
Out of the Blue
A college student describes the two sides of herself in her struggle with bipolar disorder.
- 2012
- 02:55
- Bianca Giaever