The Childhood Delusions Film Festival, now in its third edition, is an NYC film festival for adults to showcase delusional films and videos they made as children. To celebrate the upcoming 2025 Childhood Delusions Film Festival (TBD Feb 2025), Spectacle is partnering with CDFF to present the festival’s universally acclaimed 1st and 2nd editions, featured in The New Yorker and Screen Slate.

Childhood Delusions is a whirlwind, one-night celebration of childhood filmmaking and creativity, including montages of childhood home videos, claymation, music videos, delusional feature film attempts—and stuff that truly defies description.

The festival, created by Curtis Whitear, a documentary filmmaker and editor based in Brooklyn, and Co-Directed by filmmaker Joe Soonthornsawad, CDFF invites people from all backgrounds to reconnect with their uninhibited creativity and experience collective childhood memories on the big screen.