Maeve Brennan in conversation with Steven Bode

Maeve Brennan makes films that draw attention to the overlooked or the unexpected. Listening in the Dark was completed with an award from the Jerwood Foundation, produced with Film and Video Umbrella, Unintended Consequences programme, to examine the fallout of human activity on the earth. Maeve says ‘The starting point [for the work] was a news story [describing how] wind turbines were actually lethal to bats – a pressure drop behind the moving turbine blade causes the bats’ lungs to explode.’ This awful discovery led Brennan to interview ecologists, palaeontologists and bat experts (chiropterologists) and to join the latter on a nocturnal bat-hunting journey. Join Maeve to as she discusses where her journey took her.