{"id":40726,"date":"2026-01-17T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/?p=40726"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:47:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:47:39","slug":"paul-schwartz-stop-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/interviews\/interview-exclusives\/paul-schwartz-stop-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Time, Memory, and the Grace of Letting Go: Paul Schwartz on STOP TIME &#8211; Exclusive Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40727 size-shareaholic-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/stop-time-pauil-logo-1-640x460.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/stop-time-pauil-logo-1-640x460.png 640w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/stop-time-pauil-logo-1-400x287.png 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/stop-time-pauil-logo-1-768x552.png 768w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/stop-time-pauil-logo-1.png 909w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-40726-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Paul-Schwartz-edited-STOP-TIME-DWFNY.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Paul-Schwartz-edited-STOP-TIME-DWFNY.mp3\">https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Paul-Schwartz-edited-STOP-TIME-DWFNY.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An in-depth exclusive interview with writer, director, editor, and cinematographer PAUL SCHWARTZ discussing the exquisite and quietly elegant and emotional film, STOP TIME.<\/p>\n<p>SYNOPSIS:\u00a0 <em>STOP TIME tells the intertwined stories of Peter de Vries, a photographer, and Adrianna Maier, a theatrical lighting designer. Both are carrying heavy burdens of sadness: burdens that mutual friends of theirs believe each could lighten for the other. Over the course of 24 hours in New York City, their lives circle, until they meet at the opening of Peter\u2019s gallery show, which leads them both down an unexpected path.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Written and directed by PAUL SCHWARTZ, STOP TIME stars Nelson Avidon, Tara Westwood, Patty McCormack, Kelly Deadmon, Christina Toth, Catherine Quirico, and Daria Karic.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Written, directed, shot, and edited by Paul Schwartz, STOP TIME is a film of quiet precision and emotional restraint\u2014one that unfolds not through dramatic incident, but through accumulation, rhythm, and memory. Shot in luminous black and white, with fleeting, carefully motivated intrusions of color and textured Super 8mm footage, the film observes grief the way a dancer moves through space: with deliberation, balance, and grace.<\/p>\n<p>STOP TIME intertwines the stories of Peter de Vries, a photographer still suspended in mourning after the death of his wife, and Adrianna Maier, a theatrical lighting designer carrying her own quietly weighted past. Over the course of a single day in New York City, their lives circle one another, guided by well-meaning friends who sense that each might offer the other a way forward. When they finally meet at the opening of Peter\u2019s gallery show, the encounter nudges both toward an unexpected emotional alignment.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz originally conceived STOP TIME as a 44-minute film focused solely on Peter. That earlier version already took place over a single 24-hour period and contained the film\u2019s essential emotional architecture. But the impulse behind it was deeply personal.<\/p>\n<p>The idea emerged in the aftermath of Schwartz\u2019s wife\u2019s breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. At the time, his previous feature, <em>The Seasons &#8211; four love stories,<\/em> had just begun its festival run. Life, however, came to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI dropped everything,\u201d Schwartz recalls. \u201cWe spent the next eight months of me just basically taking care of her through chemo and surgery and radiation and the whole thing.\u201d When that chapter ended, he found himself in a profound creative paralysis. \u201cThe blank screen went nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough came unexpectedly in early 2024, when Nelson Avidon\u2014who plays Peter\u2014called and asked about an old idea Schwartz once mentioned, a story about a photographer. That simple nudge unlocked something. Within two weeks, Schwartz had written the entire 44-minute version of STOP TIME, composed exclusively of Peter\u2019s storyline.<\/p>\n<p>That short film might have remained complete unto itself were it not for a question posed at a cast screening. Avidon\u2019s wife, Rachel, zeroed in on a single line spoken by Adrianna: \u201cYou and I both have histories. Some of yours is sad, mine too.\u201d Her response was immediate and incisive: What\u2019s Adrianna\u2019s story?<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz realized the answer could transform the film.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding STOP TIME into a feature was not a matter of rebuilding, but of interweaving. Schwartz committed to preserving the original structure\u2014still one day, still Peter\u2019s arc\u2014but now counterbalanced by Adrianna\u2019s own 24-hour journey. The challenge lay in constraint: giving Adrianna a meaningful emotional past\u2014adoption, displacement, her relationship with her grandmother\u2014without making it so overwhelming that it would collapse the film\u2019s fragile equilibrium or strain plausibility.<\/p>\n<p>After editing the original 44-minute cut to completion, Schwartz shot four new Adrianna-centered scenes. In the edit, he quite literally cut into the finished film, inserting her story beat by beat, adjusting overlaps of sound and image so seamlessly that the expansion feels organic, inevitable. The result is not a stitched-on addition, but a true two-hander\u2014two lives in parallel, finally allowed to converge.<\/p>\n<p>One of the film\u2019s quiet triumphs is the casting of Patty McCormack as Adrianna\u2019s mother. Schwartz calls her involvement \u201ca real godsend,\u201d praising not only her emotional authority but her technical precision. Despite just having turned 80, McCormack was, as he puts it, \u201ctextually perfect\u201d\u2014fully present, rock-solid on her lines, and utterly dependable. Having worked with actors well into their nineties, Schwartz understands the risks that can accompany age; with McCormack, there were none.<\/p>\n<p>STOP TIME\u2019s black-and-white cinematography is central to its emotional grammar. For Schwartz, it was never an aesthetic affectation, but a motivated choice. Peter is a black-and-white photographer\u2014and, more importantly, he is living in black and white after his wife\u2019s death. Color exists only in memory or renewal: in dreams, in home movies, and in the slow emotional reawakening that occurs when Peter finally connects with Adrianna.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had this idea that Peter is living in black and white,\u201d Schwartz explains. \u201cAnd the color only appears when he\u2019s remembering when his wife was alive\u2026 and then in the final sequence, once he and Adrianna connect, his world bleeds gradually from black and white into color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That gradual tinting\u2014never abrupt, never declarative\u2014mirrors emotional shifts rather than narrative beats. The film breathes in shades of gray, contrast, and texture, allowing feeling to rise without being dictated.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz\u2019s love of black-and-white cinema runs deep, but here it becomes something more: a visual embodiment of grief, memory, and healing. Many of the photographs seen in Peter\u2019s gallery are Schwartz\u2019s own stills, further binding the character\u2019s inner life to the film\u2019s visual language and to the grainy Super 8mm footage that surfaces throughout.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than simulate memory digitally, Schwartz shot key material on actual Super 8 film. The home movies and Adrianna\u2019s flashbacks carry the heavy grain, flicker, and fragility of real antiquated stock. These memories feel physically aged, as though the past itself were being projected\u2014always at risk of burning out.<\/p>\n<p>The editing echoes this tactile intimacy. Schwartz favors dissolves, superimpositions, and temporal overlap over hard cuts. In one striking sequence, Peter hangs his gallery photographs while Adrianna prepares for the opening, their actions unfolding in layered simultaneity. The effect is less cinematic coverage than choreography\u2014movement, pause, and convergence shaped by rhythm.<\/p>\n<p>Sound, too, is sculpted with musical sensitivity. A former record producer, Schwartz designs STOP TIME\u2019s soundscape directly in the edit, layering ambience, effects, and score before handing the track to longtime collaborator Alan Douches for final mix. At Coney Island, waves, wind, birds, and children\u2019s voices coexist without hierarchy; at a dinner scene, clinking glasses and room tone wrap the characters in lived-in space.<\/p>\n<p>The score\u2014anchored by intimate jazz piano\u2014never announces itself. It glides beneath scenes like a shared heartbeat, reinforcing emotion rather than underlining it. Music, like light and image, adheres to Schwartz\u2019s guiding principle: less is more.<\/p>\n<p>Working in concert, the monochrome imagery and carefully modulated soundscape give STOP TIME the sensation of existing outside ordinary clocks. Time does not stop so much as soften\u2014allowing grief, memory, and connection to occupy the same suspended space. By the time Peter and Adrianna\u2019s paths finally align, it feels as though the world has briefly paused, granting them the grace to step forward together.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>TAKE A LISTEN. . .<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>by debbie elias, exclusive interview 01\/13\/2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>STOP TIME had its World Premiere at Dances With Films NY on January 17, 2026, and is currently on the festival circuit.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An in-depth exclusive interview with writer, director, editor, and cinematographer PAUL SCHWARTZ discussing the exquisite and quietly elegant and emotional film, STOP TIME.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3626],"tags":[12073,2039,4609,320,12074,12072,5541,1489,12071,12070,2761],"class_list":["post-40726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview-exclusives","tag-black-and-white-cinematography","tag-composer","tag-dances-with-films","tag-director","tag-dp","tag-dwf-ny","tag-editor","tag-exclusive-interview","tag-paul-schwartz","tag-stop-time","tag-writer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Time, Memory, and the Grace of Letting Go: Paul Schwartz on STOP TIME - Exclusive Interview - Behind The Lens Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An in-depth exclusive interview with writer, director, editor, and cinematographer PAUL SCHWARTZ discussing the exquisite and quietly elegant and emotional film, STOP TIME.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/interviews\/interview-exclusives\/paul-schwartz-stop-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Time, Memory, and the Grace of Letting Go: Paul Schwartz on STOP TIME - Exclusive Interview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An in-depth exclusive interview with writer, director, editor, and cinematographer PAUL SCHWARTZ discussing the exquisite and quietly elegant and emotional film, STOP TIME.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/interviews\/interview-exclusives\/paul-schwartz-stop-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Behind The Lens Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-01-18T02:00:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-01-18T02:47:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/stop-time-pauil-logo-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"909\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"653\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"debbie lynn elias\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"debbie lynn elias\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/behindthelensonline.net\\\/site\\\/interviews\\\/interview-exclusives\\\/paul-schwartz-stop-time\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/behindthelensonline.net\\\/site\\\/interviews\\\/interview-exclusives\\\/paul-schwartz-stop-time\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"debbie lynn elias\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/behindthelensonline.net\\\/site\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2d9b602095eb0ce3d363efb75ad0b5d4\"},\"headline\":\"Time, Memory, and the Grace of Letting Go: Paul Schwartz on STOP TIME &#8211; 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