After watching a few films i have noticed that not all films have a narrative structure. Some of them have nothing close to a narrative whereas some will deliberately follow a narrative. Videos such as Landing Lights start and end in exactly the same way, just from a different camera angle. However Doll Face has a beginning middle and end, it also appears to apply Todorov's theory of three acts. The first act is the beginning, the equilibrium. The second is the middle, the disruption. And the third is the end, the restored equilibrium. Doll Face begins with a robot in a box, the equilibrium. Then a t.v. comes along and the robot wants to imitate the image, the disruption. And then eventually the robot breaks trying to reach the television, the restored equilibrium.
Art videos often don't have any narrative structures as the artists behind them would not have necessarily needed to follow a narrative, as most of the artworks would have got straight to the point, to reveal the artists impression straight away. This is because if a piece of video art was in a gallery, those in the gallery will not be in there just to watch one video, they will be there to see much more, so to see a whole video within the gallery will absorb peoples time as they wont want to hang around one place for too long as they would like to visit the rest of the gallery.
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Why do art videos often not have strict narrative structure?
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