Project Nim

James Marsh kicks off Sundance with a film about a chimpanzee living with a rich, hippy family that exposes human vanity.

 "Project Nim, one of several opening night films that kicked off the festival yesterday, spans 26 years and recounts the story of the titular primate as he is plucked from his mother in infancy and thrust into a succession of experiments that range from the pseudo-scientific to something altogether more unsettling.The starting point of Project Nim, funded by BBC Films and the now defunct UK Film Council, is an investigation by Columbia psychologist Herb Terrace into the notion that a chimpanzee raised among people might master human communication. To discover the answer, Terrace thrusts Nim into the bosom of a willing colleague's rich, hippy household in New York."
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