Free Members-Only Screening: Lucy the Human Chimp
May05-06 Location Film Independent Presents Online Screening Room Tickets FREE for Members + 1 guest
Film Independent Members, you and a guest are invited to watch HBO Max’s
Lucy the Human Chimp in our Film Independent Presents Online Screening Room, powered by Vision Media. A special pre-recorded conversation with writer/director
Alex Parkinson, moderated by
Jenn Wilson (Senior Programmer, Film Independent), is included as part of this screening experience.
Lucy the Human Chimp tells the profound story of Lucy Temerlin, a female chimpanzee raised as human from birth in a domestic environment, and Janis Carter, the woman who took on the seemingly impossible task of giving her a new life in the wild.
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Lucy had other plans. The chimp, raised as the Temerlinsâ âdaughterâ as a part of a foolhardy, 60s zeitgeist experiment on the limits of nature versus nurture, immediately challenged Carterâs ability to hold the boundary. âShe was formidable,â Carter recalls in an expansive, disarming interview that forms the backbone of Lucy the Human Chimp, a new HBO Max documentary on the primate used as an idealistic science experiment and the caretaker who stood with her to extraordinary ends.
A âvery preciseâ signer with a 120-word vocabulary in American sign language, Lucy was âvery arrogant, very condescendingâ about Carterâs inability to understand her. One day, Lucy motioned to Carter that she wanted to groom her. In a tense moment recreated in the film, Carter dropped the touch boundary. When Lucy asked for grooming in return, Carter reached her fingers through the chain-link cage. It was âa very special moment for me,â she
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So much is now well known about the similarities we have with other primates, it is not difficult to forget that until relatively currently, we were still establishing precisely where we humans came to an end and apes began.
Through the 20th century, the chimpanzee s study specifically was a way to gain knowledge about ourselves: how we might cope in space, for instance, and how we might have communications without a common tongue.
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The Temerlins Raised Lucy in Their Home
The Human Chimp, Lucy, a new KEO Films TV documentary, Channel 4, explores the meeting of those worlds through one special relationship story: that between a chimpanzee trained as a human, Lucy, and a graduate student employed to clean her cage, Janis Carter. Through the late 1960s, Lucy was the topic of studies that are high-profiled by psychologists Jane and Maurice Temerlin, apparently to explore the nurture versus nature limits.