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Shadowgraph

Ross Domoney

45 episodes

1 month ago

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 c...

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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 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 c...

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Science Fiction,

Social Sciences

Episodes (20/45)

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Storytelling Lab: The Creative Underworld

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 c...

1 month ago

17 minutes

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Updates from Shadowgraph

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. Join our growing community Newsletter: www.shadowgraph.co Follow Shadowgraph Instagram: @shadowgraph_media Newsletter: www.shadowgraph.co YouTube: Shadowgraph TV

1 month ago

6 minutes

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Storytelling Lab: Filming the Inner World

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 ...

2 months ago

7 minutes

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Field Notes: Unexpected Encounter Whilst Filming in Syria

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. For more epis...

2 months ago

9 minutes

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What the Hell: Seeing Past the News Cycle

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 goi...

2 months ago

8 minutes

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The Storytelling Lab: One Backpack - Infinite Stories

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 abou...

2 months ago

11 minutes

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Field Notes: Inside Al Yarmouk - Filming With Care

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 require...

2 months ago

18 minutes

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What the Hell: The Anti-Narrative Therapy

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 fe...

3 months ago

8 minutes

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Storytelling Lab: Why We Love Cameras

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 otherwi...

3 months ago

15 minutes

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Conversations: Independent Media in the Age of Upheaval

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. F...

3 months ago

10 minutes

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Field Notes: Inside Al Yarmouk — Filming Reality vs Expectation

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...

4 months ago

15 minutes

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What the Hell: The Crisis of Our Inner World

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 co...

4 months ago

11 minutes

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Storytelling Lab: The Myth of Objectivity

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 ...

5 months ago

10 minutes

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Conversations: Why We Need Slower Images

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. For more episodes, films, and...

5 months ago

16 minutes

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Field Notes: Filming Groups You Oppose

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. For more episod...

5 months ago

11 minutes

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What the Hell: Anchor Points for a World on Fire

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 natur...

6 months ago

9 minutes

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Storytelling Lab: Minimalist Filmmaking 01

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. Star...

6 months ago

8 minutes

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Our Podcast re-launches tomorrow!

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 Narra...

6 months ago

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Shadowgraph updates - August 2024

In this podcast, we give you some updates on what we have been working on and the direction Shadowgraph will take in the future. Follow Shadowgraph Instagram: @shadowgraph_media Newsletter: www.shadowgraph.co YouTube: Shadowgraph TV

1 year ago

5 minutes

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Behind the lens - Palestine part 6

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 int...

1 year ago

41 minutes