I design and deliver workshops for artists, makers, and storytellers that combine critical theory with hands-on practice, grounded in the same principle: understand why you're making the choices you're making before you make them. All workshops can be tailored and are available as standalone sessions or extended series. To book or discuss, get in touch: ayza@roamingminority.com
storylabdocumentary scriptwritingStorylab asks participants to critically examine their relationship to form and medium, not just how to use a tool, but why they're using it, and whether it's the best way to communicate what they're trying to say.
The core session moves through a series of provocations: surveying the landscape of available mediums, interrogating why you're drawn to the ones you are, defining what you're trying to say and to whom, and examining the ethical and social responsibilities of your choices — from data and consent to onboarding and offboarding your audience. It draws on examples from across contemporary art and technology, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Nam June Paik to Alejandro Iñárritu's Carne y Arena and Olia Lialina's early net art. Available as a full-day workshop or an extended four-week series pairing theory with hands-on making in AR, VR, branching narratives, and audio using open source tools.
A full-day workshop that takes participants from the fundamentals of documentary form through to writing their own shooting script.
The session opens with what documentary actually is — the tensions between objectivity and subjectivity, documentary and propaganda, the problem of the unreliable narrator — grounded in Bill Nichols' documentary modes and contemporary work from Honeyland to All That Breathes. Participants work through research, logline development, narrative structure, and the two-column shooting script format, then move into working with participants: approaching interviews, navigating the empathy problem, and ethical frameworks for documentary storytelling.