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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