A volunteer for S.I.F.F., Debrah, said it was often a relief to have the festival finally here. She talked about the process of the planning meetings, the conscious construction of the festival - a spectacle. The idea of the mass of people was harder to focus on the mass of individual. Once the festival began, the idea of the "other" disappeared. There was no separation between actors and spectators. Everyone is participants because "its very idea embraces all the people."