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Researchers may have taught a chimp named Nim to communicate via sign language back in the mid-’70s, but it was humans who learned the most from the experiment, as detailed in director James Marsh‘s ...

At the tender age of 21, Jenn Howard was already burned out and disillusioned. The day after graduating from Metairie Park Country Day School, the young singer lit out for New York to see if Project ...

The latest film Oscar winner James Marsh ("Man on Wire") , "Project Nim," chronicles a Columbia University professor's ill-fated attempt to raise a chimp like a human baby, in an effort to teach it ...

In 1973, a chimpanzee born at the Institute for Primate Studies at the University of Oklahoma was removed from his mother at two weeks, bound for an Upper West Side brownstone in New York City to be ...

Story: Project Nim is the new documentary about a chimpanzee raised in a human household as part of an experiment to see if chimps could learn language. Director James Marsh and two of the people who ...

CHATHAM — The gift of memory is not without its pain. Following the area premiere of the documentary “Project Nim,” Joyce Butler, Bill Tynan and Bob Ingersoll shared their first-hand experiences of ...

James Marsh ("Man on Wire") screened his new documentary "Project Nim" as part of the Sundance Film Festival's opening night Thursday. Along with Marsh and his producing partner Simon Chinn, many of ...

Project Nim, James Marsh’s documentary biopic of the ’70s chimp picked to endure an “experiment” in simian sign language and general neglect, pulls human heartstrings as wrenchingly as any creature ...

This trenchant documentary by James Marsh (Man on Wire) exposes the foolishness of our tendency to anthropomorphize animals. In 1973 a baby chimpanzee called Nim was torn from its mother at a primate ...

Project Nim, a documentary by director James Marsh (Man on Wire) about the true story of a chimp raised as a human by hippie pseudo-scientists in the 1970s, opens at the Enzian Theater this weekend.