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.
Ring It Loud
A tender portrait of the sofly spoken environmental campaigner and former world champion cyclist Judith Sanderson, who 20 years ago smashed 5 middle distance records in her sport.
- 2007
- 02:56
- Emily Williams
Unless We Showed Up in Hazmat Suits
If Lucy met her best friend in person, her life expectancy would be cut in half.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Hillary Frank
Latin Mass
Long before the women's movement even had a name, some Oak Park girls began questioning tradition without even knowing they were doing so.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Chris Angelos
Mini-Meta-Mouse-umentary
Mousetraps and other intersections between human beings and mice.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Sue Mell
Musings Over Coffee
Half commentary, half documentary, the inscription on this coffee mug took me back to old memories.
- 2007
- 02:37
- Sandra Sleight-Brennan
Good Luck Bestows Upon You. You Will Get What Your Heart Desires.
Grandma Phyllis reads me her fortune.
- 2008
- 02:39
- Andrea Silenzi
Too Much Shade
This piece traces the devolution of a trailer to a tree.
- 2008
- 03:01
- Annie Baxter
Teen Mind
We all should do some work on our brains, but that "work" can be a load of fun, oh yeah.
- 2008
- 02:55
- Frank Karall
Govern the Ganglia
A found poem -- all text from chosen books.
- 2008
- 02:55
- Ken Cormier
Trees Have Full Control of Body and Mind and Are Thus Very Good Citizens
A very comic and nervous Monty Python-type exploration of the life of a tree.
- 2008
- 02:26
- Amy Denes
I Would Like to Introduce You to My Mom
This is an ode to my mother and to all the similarities between us that I'm learning to embrace with the help of Tommy James and the Shondells.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Molly Adams
Telepathic Trees
Brief encounters of the inter-species communication kind.
- 2008
- 03:01
- Amber Cortes
The Golden Mug Award
The coveted golden mug award is given to an actor or actress for their portrayal of an independent woman in history.
- 2007
- 02:30
- David Weinberg
Kid Lit
A periscope of my grandmother's death and how babies are made.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Kristina Lund
Mr. Alm's Garden
The story of a discovery of a secret garden.
- 2008
- 03:04
- Tom Horan
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
Stork-Bird Brain
A journey through the mind of heartache on an island that is really a peninsula.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Carolyn Hoerdemann
Red Baiting
Decommissioned Soviet mousetraps in Brooklyn's Little Odessa.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Joe Milutis
Trees Die for the Sins of Our Legislators
Of cheeseburgers, the Reagans, Grant Park and, of course, trees.
- 2008
- 02:44
- Kay Collins
The Highway 57 Breakdown in Three-Part Harmony
Busting out, breaking down, success, failure, positive thinking, and finding the right trailer hitch.
- 2008
- 02:58
- Dan Zellner
Avant Guardian
The Avant Guardian fights crime using the power of surrealism and his trusty P.S.M.G.
- 2007
- 03:00
- David Weinberg
I Thought I'd Be Rewarded for My Dating Gumption
You think you're being mature and courageous, trait which will surely be rewarded with reciprocal sentiments of love...right?
- 2007
- 03:00
- Saya April Hillman
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
Re:sound #85: The Dollar Storeys Show
This hour: the wild and wonderful results of the Third Coast Festival's 2007 Audio Challenge: Dollar Storeys.
Re:sound #38: The Games Show
This hour: tongue twisters, brain teasers, cheaters, and one of the worst high school football teams of all time.