Publisher's Synopsis
Persian folk tale 'The Conference of the Birds' relates the quest by thousands of pilgrim birds for an ideal king, the mythical bird called Simorgh. At the end of the quest, the surviving birds recognise that the longed-for king is nothing other than the reflection of their own existence. But what about those other birds that were not able to become part of the final representation? This groundbreaking book calls them 'counter-memories'; memories that are barred from hegemonic history, but are, nevertheless present in cinematic forms.
