Jump Cut
2025 · 17m · USA
Directed by James Martin Morrison
Genres: drama, sci-fi, thriller
A stalled actor takes the lead in a mysterious experimental film and watches her grip on time and reality disintegrate.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Stalled actor in an experimental film losing her grip on time — DUST channel + Mulholland Drive comparison is a red flag the size of a billboard. Seventeen minutes of vibes is a big ask.
A DUST sci-fi about an actor whose grip on time fractures through the editing itself is a Mulholland-Drive-meets-Kaufman conceit that depends entirely on execution, and at seventeen minutes the structural ambition is real. The DUST production-line context tempers my enthusiasm slightly.
17:18 at DUST with 150K views — the title commits the film to making editing itself the formal subject, which is a serious ambition for sci-fi-thriller short form. Without festival pedigree specifics it's harder to gauge whether the technique sustains.