Project Nim
On Friday, August 17th, our Eco Film will be Project Nim.
Documentary, 2011 – 93 minutes. Director: James Marsh. English, USA (with English subtitles)
From the Oscar-winning team behind MAN ON WIRE comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim’s extraordinary journey through human society, and the strong and lasting impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature – and indeed our own – is comic, revealing and extremely thought-provoking.