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Directed by: James Marsh
Country:
United Kingdom
Runtime: 1hr 32min
Year: 2011
Last Screened:
Tue 2nd Aug 2011
The captivating account of Nim Chimpsky, and the 1970's landmark experiment which plucked a baby chimp in infancy and thrust him into human families.
From the Oscar-winning team behind Man on Wire comes the captivating account of Nim Chimpsky. The 1970’s landmark experiment, in pseudo-scientific experiments testing the notion that a chimp could communicate with human sign language. We see the persecution of Nim as he falls to the whim and fancy of his ‘tutors’ from Columbia Academics to New York Hippies.
Director James Marsh masters a whirlwind narrative that turns the camera back on the people involved with Nim, and begs the potent question, is it all about the monkey, or the other apes that prance around him?