Isolation Stories

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You can stream Isolation Stories (2020) on Apple TV+ with a subscription.

A series of four short dramas depicting life in lockdown. Each episode will be 15 minutes in duration and will reflect what families are going through after weeks of isolation. The series will be filmed observing the strict rules of lockdown with actors and their families filming the scenes themselves watched remotely by the directors. Each of the directors — Paul Whittington, Paul Andrew Williams, Louise Hooper and David Blair — will be watching footage via their mobile phones and giving advice to the actors and their family members about camera positioning, scene composition and lighting as they record the scenes.

These bite-sized vignettes trade polished studio sets for the raw, unscripted chaos of real living rooms. By letting families film their own lockdown struggles remotely, the series captures a frantic intimacy that traditional scripted drama often misses.