The Storytelling Lab is a series from Shadowgraph that shares raw, practical tools for telling stories with minimal resources. It’s for filmmakers, writers, and audio producers: anyone building stories from the ground up.

In this episode, we step into the mythic arc of creativity: a journey that begins in crisis and descends into the underworld of self-doubt, disorientation, and not fitting into the moulds society sets for us. Through personal reflection, filmmaker Ross Domoney traces how a camera became more than a tool: it became a lifeline, a literacy outside textbooks, and a way of reclaiming confidence.

Guided by a mentor, tested in the chaos of youthful experimentation, and matured through discipline, this journey mirrors the timeless cycle of myth: moving from wound, to trial, to mastery. Along the way, we ask:

• What’s the creative tool that gives you freedom?
• How can chaos become fuel for growth?
• Where are you in your own creative mythology?

This episode is about more than filmmaking. It’s about how creativity itself can empower you, transform struggle into vision, and return you to the world with wisdom.

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Tune in for the latest from Shadowgraph! We share updates on what we’ve been working on, including our first online course in the art of independent documentary filmmaking. Hear about our latest film release from Tulkarem refugee camp in the West Bank, and get updates on three other films currently in development.

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The Storytelling Lab is a series from Shadowgraph that shares raw, practical tools for telling stories with minimal resources. It’s for filmmakers, writers, and audio producers: anyone building stories from the ground up.

In this episode, we turn the camera inward. What happens when a filmmaker stops chasing external spectacle and begins the filmmaking process by looking inward?

Drawing on our own work, like documenting the Roma communities in the suburbs of Paris, we’ll explore how emotions and textures can drive cinematic choices. 

It’s about the pre-filming rituals that let you meditate into the aesthetics of a location—standing still, listening, and absorbing the atmosphere. 

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Field Notes is a series from Shadowgraph: short audio diaries from the world of filmmaking.

In today’s episode, we move deeper into the Al Yarmouk camp for Palestinians in Damascus. We reflect on how we approached the camp’s shifting aesthetics as filmmakers, from the way light moves through abandoned streets to the quiet weight carried in the tone of a person’s voice.

An unplanned encounter with a convoy of HTS fighters in the camp ends with us getting a great interview.  

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What the Hell is a series from Shadowgraph: a space to reflect and make sense of the absurdity unfolding around us. We offer creative tools for those of us feeling the weight of a destabilised world.

In this episode, we look at the role of independent media: not just as an alternative to the mainstream, but as a space to go deeper. Beyond the breaking-news cycle, there’s a chance to slow down, ask harder questions, and create work that lasts.

This is a philosophical conversation about why going deeper matters, and how independent media gives us the subjective freedom to make work that is layered, personal, and deeply connected to its subject. We talk about the patience it takes to do this work, the courage to tell uncomfortable stories, and the value of creating work that endures beyond the day’s headlines.

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The Storytelling Lab is a series from Shadowgraph that shares raw, practical tools for telling stories with minimal resources. It’s for filmmakers, writers, and audio producers: anyone building stories from the ground up.

This week, Shadowgraph host Ross Domoney reflects on the rucksack as the centre of modern independent filmmaking. With lightweight cameras, compact audio gear, and a laptop, you can now travel anywhere, capture a story as it unfolds, and bring it home ready to cut.

It’s about the freedom to work without a crew, to move fast, and to stay close to your subject: carrying everything you need on your back. And the weight isn’t just physical. Inside are the voices, places, and moments collected from afar: stories you now carry with you.

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Field Notes is a series from Shadowgraph: short audio diaries from the world of filmmaking.

In today’s episode, we reflect on the challenges of filming inside the Al Yarmouk camp for Palestinians in Damascus. Beyond the logistics, we discuss the ethical reminders we carried with us: how to remain sensitive while documenting people who have lived through immense instability.

We reflect on the difficulties we faced: from the practical realities of filming in the camp to the ethical care required when documenting people’s lives.

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What the Hell is a series from Shadowgraph: a space to reflect and make sense of the absurdity unfolding around us. We offer creative tools for those feeling the weight of a destabilised world.

In this episode — The Anti-Narrative Therapy — we talk about freeing yourself from the pressure of always having to find a story. We offer an exercise that is calming and restorative. 

As filmmakers, we're often taught to chase structure, characters and tension. But during lockdown, all of that fell away.

Stripped of production, deadlines, and outcomes, we returned to filming in its most basic, meditative form: pointing the camera at the stillness of nature, in what became a very healing process. All those years running around with a camera, chasing the story had taken its toll. Going back to nature, with a camera, was a much-needed process of recharge. 

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The Storytelling Lab is a series from Shadowgraph that provides you with raw, real tools for telling stories with minimal resources. It’s for filmmakers, writers, audio producers: anyone trying to build stories from the ground up.

This week, Shadowgraph host Ross Domoney shares personal reflections on why we love video cameras.

More than just a tool, the camera becomes a companion: a black box that expands perception, sharpens attention, and opens doors into lives and places you might otherwise never enter.

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Conversations is a series from Shadowgraph where we speak with independent storytellers, artists, and thinkers exploring the creative process in a world on edge.

In this episode, we step away from the studio and onto the sea front. There, we speak to a passerby, imagining the ocean as Solaris, a living, thinking mirror reflecting the chaos of our times.

Through our conversation, we touch on the privileged nature of our lives in the West, and why independent media matters now more than ever.

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Field Notes is a series from Shadowgraph: short audio diaries from the world of filmmaking.

In today’s episode, we talk about the gap between expectation and reality on a filming trip. Specifically, what it’s like to plan for a story and then meet the reality of it, on the ground.

We reflect on our recent shoot in Damascus, Syria, where we filmed inside the Al Yarmouk camp for Palestinians: a geography shaped by conflict, memory, and resistance. This is the first of several episodes unpacking that trip, as we break down not just the logistics of filming in a place like this, but the ethical weight that comes with it.

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What the Hell is a series from Shadowgraph: a space to reflect, and make sense of the absurdity unfolding around us. We offer creative tools for those of us feeling the weight of a destabilised world.

In this episode — The Crisis of the Inner World — we ask what happens to our inner lives when the outside world is on fire. How do we hold onto imagination, reflection, and meaning in the face of collapse?

We talk about how to turn helplessness into creative action. About how storytelling can connect us to the world and help us find like-minded communities. 

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The Storytelling Lab is a series from Shadowgraph that provides you with raw, real tools for telling stories with minimal resources. It’s for filmmakers, writers, audio producers: anyone trying to build stories from the ground up.

This week, we talk about the difference between objectivity and subjectivity in filmmaking and why embracing your point of view is a strength.

We delve into the philosophical tensions underlying "neutral" reporting and explore why subjectivity is deeply intertwined with empathy, ethics, and the heart of storytelling itself.

It’s not about bias, it’s about honesty. 

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Conversations is a series from Shadowgraph: in-depth dialogues with independent storytellers.

In this episode, I’m joined by photographer and filmmaker Rod Morris. We talk about the intricacy of making slow, multi-layered analogue images and why the world needs this more than ever, in an age of image overload.

We explore photography as a form of memory, and how the process itself is a kind of time machine: a way of capturing and reworking the past in the present.

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Field Notes is a series from Shadowgraph: short audio diaries from the world of filmmaking.

In this episode, we talk about what it means to film with political groups you don’t ideologically agree with. We revisit a documentary shoot with the far right in the UK — a project that forced us to sit with discomfort, rather than escape it.

It’s one thing to fly across the world, film, and walk away. It’s another to stay home and look directly at what’s growing in your own backyard.

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What the Hell is a series from Shadowgraph: a space to reflect, and make sense of the absurdity unfolding around us. We offer creative tools for those of us feeling the weight of a destabilised world.

In this episode, we sink into the chaos: doomscrolling, disconnection, and digital overload. We speak openly about what it means to witness horror through a screen — and how to take action so we don’t feel helpless.

We explore the importance of an analogue existence and our relationship to nature.

Read deeply. Speak honestly. Talk face to face.

Filter the rage into deeper knowledge through books, conversations, and small acts of attention.

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Storytelling Lab is a series from Shadowgraph that gives you raw, real tools for telling stories with minimal resources. It's for filmmakers, writers, audio producers—anyone trying to build stories from the ground up.

In chaotic moments, the instinct is to chase everything.
In this episode, we show you how to do the opposite.

The world’s on fire with noise, conflict, and disinformation. We need independent storytellers more than ever—people making sharp, empathetic, and intelligent work.

Start where you are. Use what you have.
Our aim is to help you take action and tell stories that matter.

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We're bringing back the Shadowgraph podcast — a weekly audio dispatch from the world of documentary filmmaking, set against the chaos of a world on fire.

What to expect: 

Rotating formats (in no particular order).

1. Field Notes
Short audio diaries from the world of filmmaking. 
Real stories, failures in the field and personal reflections.

2. Headlines in Context
Breaking down, what the hell is going on in our World, told through the Shadowgraph lens. 

3. Audio Essays
Narrated essays and film excerpts on the stories we are working on. 
This is taking you behind the lens of the filmmaking process. 

4. Conversations
Behind-the-scenes chats with the team and fellow creatives in the crazy world of politics and filmmaking. 

Stay tuned!

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In this podcast, we give you some updates on what we have been working on and the direction Shadowgraph will take in the future. 

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In this episode, Ross Domoney from Shadowgraph talks about the funerals of the Palestinian fighters and civilians killed in an Israeli army raid on Nur Shams refugee camp. We also delve into decision-making while battling the fatigue that can hit hard at the end of a large filming project. This is the final episode of a six-part podcast series, 'Behind the Lens', which explores the complexities of filmmaking interwoven with the politics of working in Palestine.  These honest insights into the creative challenges we faced are from our most recent trip, which took place in April 2024, when we were filming an independent documentary on memory as a form of Palestinian resistance.

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In this episode, after getting put under siege in our West Bank hotel by the Israeli army, we finally enter Nur Shams refugee camp. In the aftermath of this raid, the occupation forces have left a vast trail of destruction. The residents of the camp search for signs of those missing. From a filmmaker's point of view, Ross Domoney from Shadowgraph talks critically about the dangers of getting addicted to adrenaline.  He also talks about the role of documentary as a tool for capturing memories and how you play those memories back to a community. This story is part of Shadowgraph’s new podcast series that explores the complexities of filmmaking interwoven with the politics of working in Palestine. 

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In this episode, we get caught up in the most destructive Israeli army raid in the West Bank in decades. We discuss the calculated risks filmmakers take in hostile environments, especially during dangerous events like army raids. After a week of unsuccessful attempts to access the Nur Shams refugee camp, we finally gained entry and captured some truly moving documentary material. However, while filming, the camp was abruptly invaded by the army, forever changing the lives of the people we met. This story is part of Shadowgraph’s new podcast series, which explores the complexities of filmmaking interwoven with the politics of working in Palestine.

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This episode features practical filmmaking advice and highlights the necessity of patience and flexibility. After an extended delay, we are granted entry to a refugee camp in the West Bank, inhabited by numerous armed Palestinian factions. Shadowgraph’s new podcast series explores the nuances of filmmaking, blending in political context along the journey.

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In this episode, we discuss how tricky it is to gain access and film in a hostile environment in the West Bank of Palestine when you do not have any connections to the area you want to work in. This story is part of Shadowgraph’s new podcast series that explores the complexities of filmmaking interwoven with the politics along the way. 

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In this new podcast series, Shadowgraph explores the intricacies of the filmmaking process, with some politics fed in along the way. These episodes are from our recent trip to Palestine, where we filmed a documentary about memory as a form of resistance. In part one, we talk about the build-up to working in a new political landscape, the complications of filming, and the painful feeling of losing access to a story.  

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