2007 TCF ShortDocs - Dollar Storeys
Third Coast Festival
In 2007, we teamed up with the Dollar Store Show and painstakingly selected three items for the Dollar Storeys ShortDocs Challenge. We invited anyone and everyone to submit a short audio work inspired by one of these items: 1) a mug with feisty feminist banter printed on it; 2) a 4-pack of wooden mousetraps; or 3) an old-school bicycle bell.
Location:
Chicago, IL
Genres:
Documentary
Networks:
Third Coast Festival
Description:
In 2007, we teamed up with the Dollar Store Show and painstakingly selected three items for the Dollar Storeys ShortDocs Challenge. We invited anyone and everyone to submit a short audio work inspired by one of these items: 1) a mug with feisty feminist banter printed on it; 2) a 4-pack of wooden mousetraps; or 3) an old-school bicycle bell.
Twitter:
@ThirdCoastFest
Language:
English
Contact:
Third Coast Festival Navy Pier 848 East Grand Chicago, Illinois 60611-3509 312-948-4682
Episodes
A Tail of Two Mice, or, Dry Sponge Cake
11/4/2007
The love between two mice turns soar with a lacl of cheese whip and an encounter with a time warp mousetrap. Produced by Catie Talarski for TCF, USA, 2007
Duration:00:02:58
A Time to Tip
11/4/2007
The courageous story of one coffee mug trying to get by in a house of people he hates. (Writing from the perspective of the mug in the first person, present tense.) Produced by David Hain for TCF, USA, 2007
Duration:00:02:58
Actionwomen
11/4/2007
Audio montage featuring the voices of women protesters and a service man remembering life in the 1980s at Greenham Common, England, a miitary base for American nuclear missiles. Produced by Anna Norberg and Simon Norberg for TCF, UK, Sweden, 2007
Duration:00:02:45
American Dream
11/4/2007
The mice have invaded and are having some R and R... so I might as well help them enjoy themselves. Produced by Chris Angelos for TCF, USA, 2007
Duration:00:02:36
An Orchestra of Bicycles
11/4/2007
Richard Lerman reflects on Travelon Gamelon, a piece he wrote in 1970 for amplified bicycles. Produced by Rene Gutel for TCF, USA, 2007
Duration:00:02:59
Avant Guardian
11/4/2007
The Avant Guardian fights crime using the power of surrealism and his trusty P.S.M.G. Produced by David Weinberg for TCF, USA, 2007
Duration:00:02:59
Ayla
11/4/2007
Here's a story of newness and wonder and remembering experience before language. Produced by WJ Carlton for TCF, USA, 2007
Duration:00:02:53
Bells
11/4/2007
A guy drifts back to the years he drove around on his bike, when he should be meditating. Produced by Frank Karall for TCF, USA, 2007
Duration:00:02:59
Bicycle Belles
11/4/2007
On the boardwalk, in search of the sound of bicycle bells. Produced by Stephanie Rowden for TCF, USA, 2007
Duration:00:02:39
Bike Bell Bandito
11/4/2007
A short tale of youth and nostalgia, bringing back past memories of the notorious nerve racking bike bell that we loved -- and mom hated! Produced by Darlene Dennard for TCF, USA, 2007
Duration:00:02:57
Buddhist Mice
11/4/2007
Buddhist teachings and mouse death. Produced by Karen Michel for TCF, USA, 2007
Duration:00:02:52
Caryll and Sidney: An Unlikely Love Story
11/4/2007
Catholic mystic falls for the Ace of Spies in post-World War 1 London. Produced by Kay Collins for TCF, USA, 2007
Duration:00:02:58
Chinese Pants
11/4/2007
An unscripted talk between a mom and her almost teenaged daughter, inspired by a handmade Mother's Day card listing all the things a mother should never do. Produced by Ramona Jan and Lucy Jan-Turan for TCF, USA, 2007
Duration:00:03:00
Curve of the Earth
11/4/2007
A small bicycle bell rings in a big landscape. Produced by Stephanie Rowden and Keith Taylor for TCF, USA, 2007
Duration:00:02:49
Daisy Chaining
11/4/2007
A daughter and her father argue about the relative merits of his vocation. Produced by Joe Giovannetti for TCF, USA, 2007
Duration:00:02:54
Dollar Daze
11/4/2007
Third Coast Festival artistic director Julie Shapiro describes her rendez-vous with Dollar Store founder Jonathan Messinger at Dollar Daze in downtown Chicago, where the Dollar Storeys items were chosen. Produced by Julie Shapiro and Johanna Zorn for Third Coast Festival, USA, 2007
Duration:00:03:19
Don't Touch This
11/4/2007
One mug brings back memories of past relationships with women. Produced by Pat Corbet for TCF, USA, 2007
Duration:00:02:46
Elizabeth's Mug
11/4/2007
Elizabeth sits at her kitchen table, contemplating a recent coworker's gift and wrestling with the advice it gives her. Produced by Dirk van der Duim for TCF, USA, 2007
Duration:00:02:56
Feisty Mama
11/4/2007
A daughter finds an old picture of her mother and sees her mother differently. Produced by Melissa Canciller for TCF, USA, 2007
Duration:00:02:44
Frenchie Movie
11/4/2007
No man is an island, entire of itself, every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee." - John Donne (1572-1631) Produced by Tim Forrest and Jeff Peters for TCF, USA, 2007
Duration:00:02:59