The Jump Cut Group started its activity in 2015 by producing the short film Strike. The group continued their activities by producing and making many short films like TWO, Momentography of an assassination, Run Refugees Run, Attack of Present to other times , and a documentary called I Did Not See Zaaven Again (about Zaaven Ghoukasian) and two feature films named SILHOUETTE and The Whole Reality In A Tiny Of Time.
The most important goal of the group members is their attitude towards cinema and filmmaking. Above all, the Jump Cut Group is looking for a collective way and informal form of film production and distribution.
Because it adheres to the well-known manifesto of militant cinema it denies films about “politics” in favor of making films “in a political” way, that is, to change the way of production and not just the content and form.
For this purpose, it is enough to refer to our history of the experience of “Cinema Azad or Free Cinema” in the forties and fifties in Iran, which formed a kind of collective filmmaking based on friendship with unique organizations by Basir Nasibi and his friends.
So it was an indisputable principle for us:
Free and friendly filmmaking, no money involved and no need for an official release, because in the age of the Internet and by power of sharing content online, the dream of militant cinema, which is the producing and distributing independently of capital and market, has been realized to some extent.
Jump Cut is a call for a free, contemporary, and emergency cinema.
Jump Cut group activities is not limited to making movies, as it concentrates on the theory of film and critics. The group has published the book titled The Beginning Of The End, an essay about Dziga Vertov group, and also published a series of online e-zines by the name of Jump Cut Papers.
This kind of research and activities are mainly purposed to collect and present militant cinema and to distribute avant-garde and less-watched movies to followers.
Finally, the Jump Cut Group is an idea for reviewing the history of pictures in the form of making and distributing movies. It’s a movement for a free and urgent cinema.
The Jump Cut group is also one of the two Iranian collectives in the Radical Film Network
