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.
Lucky Star
When you are taking risks and you don't know it's risky, and pushing boundaries when you don't know they are boundaries, it's good to be lucky.
- 2008
- 02:55
- Julia Grant
The Great Tree Strike of 1934
A record of one of the most significant cultural events of New Zealand's forgotten history.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Shaun D. Wilson
Sweetgum Handshake
Here's a radio explanation of the Radio Ephemera ShortDocs Challenge, including descriptions from Rick and Megan Prelinger, of the books selected for the project.
- 2008
- 07:46
- Julie Shapiro
- Rick and Megan Shaw Prelinger
Is That My Imagination?
2008 ShortDocs Winner! The story of a mind on strike.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Meghan Vigeant
The Searchers (Based on a True Story)
2008 ShortDocs Winner! Where do lost stories go? Potato pancakes are involved.
- 2008
- 03:06
- David P. Earle
The Unsustainable Age
A History Channel-style short told from the 23rd century.
- 2008
- 02:58
- Matt Fleeger
The Woman in the Tree
Here's a story along the theme of "ephemera" - things that were not built to be around for long.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Kathryn Born
A Large, Well-Rounded Head
The strange journey of Walt Whitman's brain, both inside his head, and out.
- 2008
- 03:01
- Kate Daloz
- Michelle Legro
Tree Body
Three children talk of how trees are good control of body and mind, recite poetry about trees, call out tree names, and make all kinds of lovely unexpected connections.
- 2008
- 02:46
- Alix Blair
Restful, Shady Places
The authors of Trailer Ahoy! and Trees as Good Citizens enjoy a written correspondence relating to their books' proximity in the library.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Sean Hurley
Leaves
The planting of a memorial tree reveals a lost story about my grandmother.
- 2008
- 03:33
- Max Barry
Out of Control. Noise.
From children to adults . . .
- 2008
- 02:31
- Alexander Soleev
Why Question the Facts?
A tired teen talks in the second worst recording device he has.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Shaun D. Wilson
The Subtle Tongue of Racism Remains Unbitten in a "Post-Racial" America
How do Anglos think black people talk -- and how does that feel?
- 2008
- 02:58
- Will Wright
The Big Strike!
When a venerable neighborhood tree is struck down its loss is felt by all the residents on the street, but sometimes nature has its reasons.
- 2008
- 02:57
- Sarah Bernath
Nerve Machine
Assailed by doubts, fears and illusions on all sides, the warfare within our bodies is a silent one.
- 2008
- 02:17
- Karen Werner
- Victoria Estok
A Transgender Childhood
Growing up isn't easy - when you feel as if your mind is one gender, and your body another.
- 2008
- 03:03
- Tina Antolini
Upon the Black Top Sea
Joe escapes in his trailer alone but this time he has a visitor.
- 2008
- 02:31
- Mary Mazurek
Misguided Meditation
A guided meditation spoof for all those searching for enlightenment, but who don't know where to find it.
- 2008
- 03:02
- Sarah L'Estrange
Sending Books to Africa
A surreal tale about book donations, whitefish salad, and trans-atlantic journeys.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Sarah Yahm
In Order to Remember
Stories, photos, tape . . . all ways of recording, of trying to preserve, that which is so ephemeral to begin with: our memories.
- 2008
- 02:56
- David Graham
- Sue Mell
That Tragic Night
Survivors recount the sinking of the Titanic.
- 2008
- 02:31
- Catie Talarski
Six Minutes
A motorcyclist hits the only tree standing in an otherwise empty field.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Katie Ball
Trees for Economic and Social Justice
This piece explores the connections between social justice, activism, and citizenship, and questions the best way to make the world a better place.
- 2008
- 02:52
- Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
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.