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.
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
Haunted/House
A house's ghostly imprint on one family's memory.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Rosalind Lilly
- Allison Lewis
The Noble Gazer
My dad stares out the window a lot at work - for a while I thought he was being lazy but I don't think he is anymore.
- 2016
- 02:59
- Hans Anderson
By the Deer's Trail
An existential monologue of a deer along a journey that happens to be his last one.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Yakov Lurie
Seeing Heat
The first human with heat-vision talks candidly of her experience, the surgeon explains the science while she's under the knife.
- 2016
- 02:59
- Mia Kukathasan
Starcastic
Found-sound sculpture.
- 2016
- 02:26
- Coasty McCoastface
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
ragazzo incontra ragazzo
A chance encounter brings together an American and Italian boy, not knowing when they'll ever meet again.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Garrett Kling
What Is It Like?
A look at invisibility, silhouettes, and humanity through a kaleidoscope.
- 2016
- 02:59
- Tree Mabry
Minor Fugue
A man haunted by memory slogs through his murky past.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Stan Vilensky
- Tucker Eads
Bad Year for Stegs
A young woman seeks shelter from the annual summer influx of Stegosauri.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Ari Erlbaum
- Emile Coco
Hard-Boiled Poet
This hard-boiled poet cracks another case wide open.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Regina Botros
Venture into the Void
A man relives his encounter with a deadly alien.
Fembot
Hear the inner thoughts of Fembot – your ideal, socially-constructed long-distance girlfriend!
- 2016
- 02:59
- Michelle Macklem
- Katie Hill
- Matthew Kariatsumari
Before You Tell Him
A woman receives unexpected news and wonders how her boyfriend will react.
- 2016
- 02:43
- Mary Helen Montgomery
- Maura Friedman
Bellhop
So we were lied to.
- 2016
- 02:19
- Garrett Tiedemann
Cassius
To stick with the herd, sometimes you give up everything.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Jessica Klinke
Hey Guys, I'm Sorry
A YouTube make-up star who suffers from anxiety finds love in an unlikely place.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Sandra Bertin
From a Distance
Standing where she always wanted to be, a woman on the moon looks at life from a distance.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Dorothea Trufelman
- Emma Lanier
Truck Stop Transformation
At the World's Largest Truck Stop in Walcott, Iowa, nothing is simply what it is.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Jake J. Smith
Chewed-Up Justice
A young man's gritty investigation of a crime that hit his snack drawer.
- 2016
- 02:59
- James Lindberg
First Kiss
You never know what will happen on date night...
- 2016
- 02:53
- Ben Kass
2000 Messages
Robbie, a former lighthouse keeper in Guernsey, thinks he sent as many as 2000 messages out to sea over the years - with some interesting results.
- 2016
- 02:58
- Elisabeth Mahy
It's Coming
Something is coming for a man struggling to survive - is it Spring, Redemption, Revenge or Death?
- 2016
- 02:03
- Chandler Murray
Don't Gogh
Creative inspiration turns to obsession in the life of an artist.
- 2016
- 02:48
- Spivey Knapik