The Jan/Feb04 issue of Res Magazine is focused on emerging narrative forms:

WRITE ON: 21st Century screenwriters have taken Quentin Tarantino's lead in crafting non-linear narratives marked by interlocking stories, multiple points of view and unreliable narratives.

REALITY FROM SEVERAL ANGLES: Julie Talen's 75 minute film employs from 2 to 42 symultaneous video streams on screen to signal a destabilization of narrative and mixes perspective, reality and fantasy. (I'm quite interested in this film.. - see www.beginllc.com/projects/pretend.html for QT snipet)

SELECT AND COMBINE: Theorist Lev Manovich asserts that the database should be accorded the stature of the cinema or the novel and the emergence of dynamic narratives driven by databases bears him out.

SPACE, TIME AND EVERYTHING: Film artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila's painterly installations find their subject matter through the twisted matrices of domestic despair.

COMICS: A SPOTTERS GUIDE TO NARRATIVE STYLE: A primer on one of the most fragmented, playful and elastic of narrative forms.

READ explores online versions of the Surrealists Exquisite Corpse game and Ed Buscome's Cinema Today.

PLAY dallies with Dark Alliance II and the history of game narratives.

Q+A chats with Lars von Trier about his writing process.

This issue is a good starting point to follow some of what is going on in the field as the articles are short. Unfortunately the articles are not online. Details at res.com