Jakob Egger

Eight-year-old Nina loves Christmas. It's best when her patchwork family of thirteen celebrates together - just like last year, when her new grandma was still alive. Things don't look too rosy for the approaching festivities, as the pre-Christmas meeting between the seven adults ends in an argument.

Vienna, 1996. A mini-DV tape with footage for a student documentary. Alina and Flora interview unreliable witnesses to the appearance of extraterrestrial reptilian creatures. But soon they themselves drift further and further into the narrative: Lizards subjugating humanity through hybridization? Sounds plausible. At some point, the Hofburg is in flames, and reason itself is in ruins. Michael Gülzow's mockumentary hilariously satirizes the media logic and spread of conspiracy ideologies.