First look at Project Nim documentary from Truro director James Marsh
We’re getting pretty excited about Project Nim, the newie from Cornwall’s James Marsh, director of the Oscar-winning Man On Wire.
And we’re not the only ones -the folks at Empireonline.com recently described James as one of their ‘new documentary stars’, along with the likes of Charles Ferguson and Lucy Walker.
Empire mused that ‘Marsh is almost impossible to pin down. The real and unreal mingle on his CV but never in his films; truth and fiction are always delineated and recreations carefully constructed’.
In short, they think he’s pretty rad.
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Funded by BBC Films and the UK Film Council, Project Nim spans 26 years and tells the story of boffin Herb Terrace who reckons a chimpanzee raised among people might master human communication.
To discover the answer, Terrace thrusts Nim Chimpsky (yknow, like Noam Chomsky) into the bosom of a willing colleague’s hippy household in New York.
These clips, courtesy of (ie, nicked from) MakingOf.com, have certainly whetted our appetite for the movie -especially after hearing the nice lady’s ‘Nim began to discover my body’ line. Whack my bonobo!
It’s all a long way from Truro, where James was born in 1963. Despite moving to the Big Smoke when he was four, he returned to Sennen every school holiday. He now lives in wunnerful wunnerful Copenhagen.
As well as Man On Wire, James is responsible for 1999’s Wisconsin Death Trip and 2005’s underrated The King, starring Gael GarcÃa Bernal and William Hurt.
More recently he directed the 1980 section of Channel Four’s critically-lauded Red Riding trilogy.
There’s still no word on a release date for Project Nim, so we guess you’ll just have to stay tuned to D&CFilm for more details.
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