Axial Cut

An Axial Cut is a type of jump cut, where the camera suddenly moves closer to or further away from its subject, along an invisible line drawn straight between the camera and the subject.

A plain jump cut typically involves a temporal discontinuity (an apparent jump in time). Whereas, an axial cut is a way of maintaining the illusion of continuity. Filmmakers rarely use axial cuts in contemporary cinema. However, they were fairly common in the cinema of the 1910s and 1920s.