Interviews on Editing the Time Loop

The storytelling in Palm Springs is part linear and part non-linear. On the non-linear side, there were obviously repetitions of the same day, but those days weren’t repetitions per se for our heroes… their timelines generally kept moving forward, together. But sometimes we used the narrative device of the flashback to make their storyline non-linear as well, and sometimes we even saw the exact same events once from Nyles’ perspective and a second time from Sarah’s perspective. We took great care in the editorial process to keep all those repetitions soul crushing for the characters, but not for the audience. I talk about how we achieved that balance in this piece for Variety magazine, and also in this episode of Avid’s Rough Cut podcast, as well as this article and video interview for Deadline Hollywood.