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neotoma ([personal profile] neotoma) wrote2011-06-05 09:10 pm
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SilverDoc Film Festival in two weeks

I'm going to be taking off a few days to attend Silverdocs in two weeks -- anyone else interested in seeing documentary films, or just meeting up for a meal or two in Silver Spring on that Thursday, Friday, or Saturday? I'm definitely interested in seeing Project Nim, about Nim Chimpsky.
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[personal profile] gloss 2011-06-06 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Project Nim blew me away when I saw it a couple weeks ago. It's fantastically powerful.
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[personal profile] neotoma 2011-06-08 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
It looks interest, for certain. Do they compare the Nim reseach to Washoe at all?
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[personal profile] gloss 2011-06-08 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
Nope - it's far less a documentary about the project than it is about Nim's life and the people in it. I mean, there is a subtheme on the rate of acquisition of words, but the film doesn't attempt to answer whether he quote-unquote "really" learned language.
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