Non-narrative films eschew or de-emphasize stories and narratives, instead employing other forms like lists, repetition, or contrasts as their organizational structure. For example, a non-narrative film might create a visual list (of objects found in an old house, for instance), repeat a single image as an organizing pattern (returning to an ancient carving on the front door of the house), or alternate between objects in a way that suggests different fundamental contrasts (contrasting the rooms, clothing, and tools used by the men and the women in the house).
A non-narrative movie may certainly embed stories within its organization, but those stories usually become secondary to the non-narrative pattern.
(p. 263)
Corrigan, Timothy, and Patricia White. The Film Experience: An Introduction, 3rd Edition. Third Edition edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012. Print.
Non Narrative Films
Corrigan, Timothy, and Patricia White. The Film Experience: An Introduction, 3rd Edition. Third Edition edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012. Print.
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Adrian Miles
Adrian Miles is a Senior Lecturer in New Media and currently the Program Director of the Bachelor of Media and Communication Honours research studio at RMIT, in Melbourne, Australia. He has also been a senior new media researcher in the InterMedia Lab at the University of Bergen, Norway. His academic research on hypertext and networked interactive video has been widely published and his applied digital projects have been exhibited internationally. Adrian's research interests include hypertext and hypermedia, appropriate pedagogies for new media education, digital video poetics, and the use of Deleuzean philosophy in the context of digital poetics. He was the first or second person in the world to videoblog.
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Commentary, Doings
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