This weekend is the last chance to see our recent exhibition 'On Building Nations'! Photo from Szabolcs KissPal's film 'The Rise of the Fallen Feather'. The associative chain of historical references in The Rise of the Fallen Feather looks at how the symbolism of a totem bird - the mythological Turul - affected twentieth-century Hungarian history through an amnesiac, yet magical, collective memory from very early times, through the founding of the Turul Fellowship Association in 1919, and up to the present ideology of “blood and motherland.” The video follows the structure of the Turul’s iconography as some
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