Research on Alternative Narrative Structures as Worldings proposes to look into the plurality of narrative forms beyond the theoretical canonical template of most film scripts.

The classical three-act, hero’s journey structure is embedded in an occidental, evolutionist, linear paradigm, but has pervaded the world and is now globally setting the model of cinematic structuring.

The standard narrative structure propagates a hegemonic worldview that does not reflect the diversity of cultures and worldmaking perceptions. As such the canonical narrative structure is epistemologically coercive and creating a formatted system of thinking and sensing, that does not take into consideration many aspects of life or ways of life.

Contemporary non-Western filmmakers offer a plurality of perspectives, methods of structuring film narratives. They propose concrete emancipatory, subversive film practices that not only undermine hegemonic or national dominant narrative structuring, but moreover open the possibilities of diverse, inclusive, speculative narrative forms that also articulate other worldviews and cultural epistemologies.