The ideas that the S.I.F.F. is a layering 'real' life is absurd. Reality is a montage of spectacles so normal time does not exist. The idea suggests that without the festival, Seattle would be removed from the idea of a spectacle. Reality is not based on the removed other. It is the montage of images that help to form the appearance of the spectacle. Reality itself becomes an idea, an aura of a perceived truth.