A smart, off-kilter artist's book documenting and expounding upon the artist duo's latest film project, The Birds This book takes Common Birds (2019), an experimental adaptation of Aristophanes' play The Birds , as its jumping-off point. The Paris-based artist duo behind the film, Graeme Thomson and Silvia Maglioni, probe unusual topics related to endangerment and metamorphosis, such as zombie languages and hauntologies of extinction.