Web3 Summit

An aftermovie that carries the event, and every talk recorded so the programme outlives the week.

The Web3 Foundation asked the crew for two things from its summit in Berlin: a film that carries what the event was like to the people who were not in the room, and the talks themselves — every session on the programme, recorded so the programme outlives the week it ran. The first is a sizzle’s job; the second is a conference crew’s. Most organisers hire them separately. The Foundation hired one crew for both, for two editions running: 2024, then 2025.

A community-driven event wants its record made by people who belong to the community.

Web3 Summit describes itself as a community-driven event — talks, workshops, unconference sessions and a round-the-clock hackathon, for the builders and researchers shaping the decentralised web. That is the Samouraï Coop film crew’s home ground: the engineering studio it shares a company with builds for open-source ecosystems, and the crew has been filming the rooms where those ecosystems meet — Paris P2P, dWeb Camp, Funding the Commons. A crew that can follow the argument on stage frames a talk differently from one waiting for the applause.

A summit is shot on the organiser’s schedule, in rooms built for an audience.

A summit is shot on the organiser’s schedule, in rooms built for an audience rather than a camera, with a hackathon running through the night beside it. Access, the number of parallel stages and the size of the crew are the constraints of every summit; which of them bit hardest in Berlin is not written up, and this page does not guess.

Two jobs, one crew: a camera on every stage, and a second eye hunting the film.

The talks are the structural work: a camera on every stage, every speaker recorded clean, and an edit cut talk by talk so each one stands on its own on the Foundation’s channel. The aftermovie is the opposite discipline — a camera free to leave the stage and follow the event into the corridors, the hackathon tables and the water at the end of the day, which is the frame this study opens on. The two jobs share a crew and a set of rushes, so the film can draw on the best moment of any talk and the talk edit can borrow a cutaway the film found. Everything was cut and finished in-house.

Two editions, two aftermovies, every talk — on the Web3 Foundation’s channel.

For each edition the Foundation received the aftermovie and the full set of talk recordings, published on its own channel — which is where a commissioned crew’s work should live, under the organiser’s name. The 2025 film is linked from the top of this page and below; the frame above it is from the 2024 film.

• Source:Web3 Summit 2025 — the film on the Web3 Foundation’s channel ↗

The record is public. What it did for the Foundation is theirs to say.

The films are public and the talks are findable, which is the outcome the brief asked for: the event has a record that does not depend on having been in Berlin that week. Whether the films moved the next edition’s attendance, or how far the talks travelled, is the Foundation’s data, and this page does not borrow an organiser’s figures to stand in for a result. What a crew can honestly print is this: the Foundation commissioned it for two editions running.