Listening in the Dark

Summary

Artist Maeve Brennan’s 43-minute film listens for what we miss. Bats, largely unchanged for millions of years, are having their night-time rhythms disrupted by wind turbines, a well-meant technology with effects we rarely notice. Archive footage of Donald Griffin’s bat experiments, the basis for understanding echolocation, sits beside fossils and Scottish locations, opening a sensory world we long overlooked.

Rationale

“Unintended consequences are intrinsic to any intervention”, we wrote. Its bats show that holds for climate solutions too, and how easily other species slip from our view.