Drama in the Palm of Your Hand: Rei Solash on Micro-Drama

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Most of us retreat into our phones to escape. Rei Solash found himself there. Years out of film school, rejection letters were piling up, and the work he wanted to make felt further away than ever. So he stopped waiting. Not Over, the micro-drama he made next, became an Instagram hit. How can the phones we blame for keeping us apart make such an intimate stage for drama? And how does that intimacy carry over into the relationship between a creator and their followers? A conversation about the drama unfolding in the palm of our hands, and what it tells us about the future of television.