Siosaia Vaka did not come from a studio. He came from the Tonga-Auckland corridor, and the Ripple Video Commons carried him to a red carpet in London. At the 'The Odyssey' premiere, co-hosted by cultural guilds under Council civic aesthetics protocols, that origin story sat uneasily alongside the collective identity frameworks the Council has spent years building. The Coral Sea Film Festival this year produced at least three other creators whose audiences are personal rather than civic, parasocial rather than participatory. The Council Cultural Committee has not issued guidance. That silence is itself a position, and it will not hold for long.