The “structure of feeling”, according to the Welsh cultural commentator Raymond Williams, is the inaccessible ribbon of contextual cultural complexity which artists of various kinds draw on when creating. Cinema has been fascinated by this “structure of feeling” and how it relates to the creation of art, if maybe not quite using this exact language. While theories of individual genius have been discredited for a more collaborate viewpoint, films dealing with painters, writers, singers and the creative process still abound. Indeed, The Brutalist (2024), although wholly fictional, was essentially a film of ideas about creation but here, unusually, the creator…

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