Narrative and non-narrative structures

I don’t think any of the experimental videos I watched was based on a book or any thing like that but they seem to have a traditionally story line to them like with 1001 night all the different stories told put into any other older it would still give us the same susceptive to what we where watching. But koyaanisqatsi has the same beginning he end of the video which makes it go around in a loop. 1001 nights wouldn’t effect the meaning of the video if it was all changed round in order of the people talking because they are all talking about completely different events so its not like the next person would be carrying on what the person was talking about before. You could have it all played backwards and it would still give out the same meaning.