Structural filmmaking is cinema in one of its purest forms. It eliminates conventional narrative structure and the artifice of staging a version of reality and instead finds the narration in the subjects it points a camera at. It explores the possibilities of film as an artistic medium through its subversion of what most people consider film to be. Film is the art of vision, and the playground of the subconscious. It doesn’t require rules, and it need not conform to the same flaccid conventions of storytelling that have been lazily applied to every artistic medium since men first painted on cave walls. Structural films observe the artifice in the worlds that we build around us, and force us to look inward for answers and interpretations. That is where the interesting stuff lives, and I would rather spend a lifetime in quiet introspection than find myself subjected to another three act story that follows the same tropes that are as old as human civilization.