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.

All You Need is a Wall - 1

Grace De Pass is fascinated with life at the laundromat. Her first trip to one, back in 1964, was particularly memorable.

2010
03:00
Jill Strauss

Chain of Missing Links - 25

The chains that code for our genes only make up 2% of our DNA, which means the purpose of the rest of the stuff is a bit of a mystery....

All You Need is a Wall (Memo)

Nothing makes sense when these things happen.

2010
02:56
Alix Blair

I Didn't Know That - 11

An innocent (?) bystander observes a traffic accident and is surprised by his reaction.

2010
02:57
Tony Green

Chain of Missing Links - 27

A mother and daughter assess the plight of a neighbor.

All You Need is a Wall - 13

A meditation on big changes, building walls, and breaking them down again.

2010
03:00
Mia Lobel

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 - 10

On a rare sunny day in Seattle, we walk around the neighborhood and learn from strangers what we don't know.

All You Need is a Wall - 12

A journey of discovery, passion, nature, and conscience.

2010
03:00
Ben Pagac

I Didn't Know That - 9

A man drives through rural Illinois to find an answer to future questions.

All You Need is a Wall (of Noise)

A personal account of Hendrick's adjustment to a hearing impairment, causing him to navigate a world of unwanted sound, is arranged with interviews of two friends recounting a noisy concert experience to help create a perception of what it's like to live behind a wall of noise.

2010
03:01
Chris Trimmer

A Cold Freezin Night - 11

Jay came with me to a whiskey convention thinking that he was going to have a blast...but someone from his past throws his night into a painful meditation on love and whiskey.

2010
03:00
Stephanie Foo

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

All You Need is a Wall (The Infamous Elevator Story)

The close quarters of an elevator make for a particularly suffocating ride after someone, um, passes gas. If only there was a gas mask on board, or a protective wall to block or at least deflect the pungent odor.

2010
02:52
Adam Kampe

All You Need is a Wall (I Too, Sing America)

A high school teacher imagines what might happen when poet Langston Hughes, in his poem "I, Too, Sing America," has a chance to leave the kitchen he's confined to and actually sit at the table when company comes.

2010
02:59
Adam Kampe

Chain of Missing Links - 26

This audio story is about seeking happiness away from home.

2010
03:00
Kajsa Kvaale

All You Need is a Wall - 11

Divorce brings about unimagined ramifications.

2010
03:00
Katie Ball

Chain of Missing Links (Objects and Their Owners)

This piece is an audio documentary centering on the stories of how people become connected to objects and about how we let these objects go at a garage sale.