JP Independent Journal

Editorial Manifesto

JP — Independent Journal

Cinema, for us, has never been a matter of personal expression.

Expression is a privilege. Survival is a necessity.

This journal emerges from contexts where reality is not singular.

Where one thing can be said,

another must be understood,

and a third—if fully exposed—has the power to collapse law, morality, and even language itself.

In such conditions, cinema was never decorative.

It was a means of passage.

Today, much of what is labeled “independent cinema” is neither independent,

nor risky,

nor honest.

Films increasingly resemble painless statements.

Surrealism has been reduced to a gesture.

Suffering has been aestheticized into festival-friendly currency.

And filmmakers, instead of seeing, have begun managing their own image.

JP does not exist to produce news.

Nor does it exist to perform neutrality.

When structures are built on distortion,

“fairness” without context becomes another form of deception.

This journal is a space for:

what is usually left unsaid

moments when filmmakers chose not to lie

and points where cinema ceased to function as art and became a reflex

We are not interested in works that deliver messages.

We are interested in moments that cannot defend themselves.

If what is published here causes discomfort,

that is not a failure of tone.

Cinema is not meant to calm.

Calmness is often the most effective form of internal censorship.

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Editorial Desk

JP — Independent Journal