nonnarrative

Traditionally a nonnarrative, nonlinear genre born of and driven by advances in technology, it is now expected to be nonsensical, even obtuse; to exist in a perpetually free-form state of nowheresville.

Video Artist on Pause, Prodigies in Play Lance Esplund 2011

Like New Wave auteurs François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, who combined an enthusiasm for Hollywood with then-innovative techniques like jump cuts and nonnarrative sequencing, Audiard seeks to go beyond conventional filmmaking and happy endings.

Making New Waves 2010

Commercial filmmaker Jon Kane joins the Diet Soap podcast this week to discuss his work with Godfrey Reggio on the nonnarrative film “Naqoyqatsi.”

Diet Soap Podcast #21: Life as Advertising 2009

Harmony Korine returns to Gummo territory in this handheld video of a loser-gang cult-freak collective who do antisocial things in a nonnarrative way, except for the song-and-dance numbers.

Harmony Korine’s Next Feature Film, Trash Humpers, Already Finished | /Film 2009

Commercial filmmaker Jon Kane joins the Diet Soap podcast this week to discuss his work with Godfrey Reggio on the nonnarrative film “Naqoyqatsi.”

2009 September 2009

Field boundaries scratched into the soil are an especially elusive nonnarrative way of remembering shared experience, and their impermanence and vulnerability to covert adjustment (especially in sandy soils) render them not only highly unstable as memories but also readily available as weapons of social exclusion in times of shortage or distress.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Note 5: In her research on Mpiemu communities in the Central African Republic, Tamara Giles-Vernick explores narrative and nonnarrative practices of recalling the past.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

This stifling pressure on women's public speech accounts for both the quality and the diversity of narrative and nonnarrative forms of older women's remembering in postwar Magude.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

The more challenging question about women's forms of remembering is how one interprets such narrative or nonnarrative relations historicallythat is, as claims about the past.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Neither source nor account, narrative nor text, tradition nor discourse adequately captures the idea of memories that women do not articulate as story or conveys the purposefully, indeed ineluctably social quality of switsundzuxo's narrative and nonnarrative forms.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005