Project Nim
This January, Icon Home Entertainment presents the gripping, heart-wrenching and powerful Project Nim, released on DVD on 9 January 2012.
From the Oscar® and BAFTA® winning filmmakers behind MAN ON WIRE, James Marsh and Simon Chinn, comes the story of Nim the chimpanzee. In the 1970’s Nim became the focus of a controversial and groundbreaking experiment, which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child.
Catch a unique look at one of the most shocking and most interesting social experiments to date with a selection of DVD extras, including an audio commentary from James Marsh plus the 'Making of Project Nim' and 'Bob’s Journey' featurettes and a stunning photo gallery.
The film follows Nim's fascinating existence in a human society and the enduring impact he made on people along the way.
Project Nim is an unflinching and powerfully devastating biography of an animal we tried to make human; a journey of power, attraction and group bonding in a species whose startling capacity for selfishness and aggression is offset by human displays of affection and intelligence.
What we learn from Nim is his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.