Join CICLOPE Founder & CEO, Francisco Condorelli, in kicking off this year’s CICLOPE Festival at the Home of Craft.

Lauren Greenfield has built an unprecedented longitudinal record of how commercial media shapes culture, youth, gender, and, increasingly, democracy itself. Her award-winning docuseries Social Studies, whose immersive exhibition is open from September at Fotografiska Berlin, turns to the same machinery’s youngest targets, exposing what the engagement-at-all-costs economy is doing to the next generation.

Drawing on new work from Dove’s Beauty Machine to Kids + AI for LEGO to the terrifying data propelling her new museum installations, she will make the case that in this time of distraction and consumer distrust, there is an opportunity to establish trust with audiences through meaningful stories that connect, inform, and move people instead of feeding the machine.

The traditional lines between brands, agencies and production companies are becoming increasingly difficult to define. Bringing together perspectives from the brand, agency and production sides, this conversation looks at how the creative partnership is being redrawn. 

Rather than announcing the death of any one model, the session asks a more useful question: as the boundaries blur, what makes each partner genuinely valuable — and what will it take to remain indispensable in the years ahead? Speakers TBA.

Your Way Out of the System is one of those rare projects where every creative decision works in service of a single, deceptively simple idea. Bringing that idea to life meant building an entirely new world: architecture, movement, costumes, characters and visual language… every creative decision had to feel like part of the same universe.

In this case study, the team behind the campaign retraces the journey from the original strategic thought to the final frame. Ultimately, this is a conversation about creative decision-making: how do you give different disciplines enough freedom to make an idea better without slowly losing the idea that brought everyone together in the first place?

Over the years, Squarespace has worked with some of the most celebrated feature directors in the world: Yorgos Lanthimos, Martin Scorsese, Spike Jonze, Damien Chazelle, Edgar Wright and Jonathan Glazer. Some of the best times. Some of the hardest.

When you bring a feature film director into the world of brand storytelling, you’re not just hiring extraordinary talent; you’re inviting in a strong creative point of view. Join David Lee, Chief Brand & Creative Officer of Squarespace, and Rebecca Skinner, MD/EP of Superprime Films, as they unpack the realities of working with feature directors — sharing the tensions, hesitations and hard-earned lessons they’ve picked up along the way.

Netflix’s Discover Your Future, directed by Show Yanagisawa, brought together multiple iconic worlds, each with its own creative and technical challenges. For the team behind the film, the question was never simply practical or VFX, but what should be real, what should be created digitally — and how the two could work together to make the impossible feel seamless.

Joined by Orlee Tatarka (Wieden+Kennedy), Executive Producer Suzanne Hargrove (PRETTYBIRD), Production Designer Dan Betteridge and Creative Director Ryan Knowles (Electric Theatre Collective) this session unpacks some of the film’s biggest challenges and the decisions behind them.

Born in Bangkok, Thailand and raised in the mountains of Nepal, Camille Summers-Valli is an acclaimed French-Australian multidisciplinary filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist. Known for her playful yet thought-provoking approach, Camille’s work envelopes the senses and organically inspires audiences to feel something deeper.

Camille has worked and collaborated with a wide range of brands and artists throughout the world, including The New York Times, Nike, Adidas, Chanel, Burberry, Hermes, Haim, Gucci, Coach, METTE, Vogue, Dom Perignon, Jean Paul Gaultier, On, and the United Nations.