
Butterfly Trick (2024). Video (9:37). In Butterfly Trick, a surreal political saga unfolds within the walls of Germany’s most iconic police station, reimagined in an alternative universe. A crew of journalists embarks on a guided tour of the Davidwache police station, led by Officer Max Schneider—a trickster, a robot, and yet just a regular cop. As he deals with fantastic creatures claiming to belong to a secret anarchist society, the journalists uncover the station’s peculiar secret: the so-called “butterfly trick,” the only means of escape. Blurring the boundaries between documentary, speculative fiction, and cinematic experimentation, Butterfly Trick interrogates themes of authority, visibility, and the surreal mechanisms of liberation.