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FRIDAY Panoramic IceBoxxing….

Now this Friday, was a Friday I will remember. A day that involved lots of tromping round getting missions done. I was looking forward to a Festive Friday night, with Indian Ocean islands and the Massive IceBox on the roll. The evening did the day justice. Both events were commercially unstable. Not enough people arrived, not nearly as many as should have.

The choice of movies for the Panorama didn’t inspire death defying wheel stunts to get to KwaCinema at 6, surely though, there is a segment that would like to see these sorta movies, perhaps the location could have been accessible to foreigners, even guerilla screenings in Albert Park? There is a massive contingent of French speakers that live closer to the city that most of us do. The price of R15 was decent, so the real question is: did anyone advertise these movies in French?

Ice Boxx was a really sad affair, not entirely sad, but bittersweet, half-reluctant sad, like the way Durban gets sometimes. There were some really amazing storylines , animations and digital crafting projected at KwaCinema, indeed. The Balloon Monkey and the Bread with eyes that cries 'Loaf' when it cut it! The Lark video with a really pissed-off teddy bear! The fractal eye candy. The Dating Tips. It really was a great line-up of digital and animation trickery and wizardry, a sort of brain food for creatives. The one disappointing thing was the real lack of presence of anything related to IceBoxx or RustPunk. No music, no people, no sights, no sounds, no url links. It seemd as though the screenings were tossed aside as an after-something, rather than being the central connecting focal point and networking mechanism it could have been. I expected IceBoxx to forward us some correspondence, so that we could at least inform those that arrived, or that RustPunk could have sold a screening/party combo ticket. Just ideas from this dear..

KwaCinema Music Video Shoot - IceBox Party

Its not very important on the bigger radar, when you zoom into the sector, and see that this could have been an important engagement event, all parties will realise they'd miss a trick.

It's good to see that the Durban Electronic Musicians are getting together. Finally!