Koko, a talking gorilla, Janus Films, Les Films du Losange, Barbet Schroeder, and L'institut national de l'audiovisuel present a film by Barbet Schroeder
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Koko, a talking gorilla, Janus Films, Les Films du Losange, Barbet Schroeder, and L'institut national de l'audiovisuel present a film by Barbet Schroeder
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Koko, a talking gorilla
Medium
videorecording
Oclc number
70878995
Responsibility statement
Janus Films, Les Films du Losange, Barbet Schroeder, and L'institut national de l'audiovisuel present a film by Barbet Schroeder
Runtime
80
Series statement
Criterion collection, 340
Summary
Koko, a six-year-old gorilla, is the subject of a controversial Stanford University research project conducted by Penny Patterson. A perceptive simian who communicates with humans via sign language, Koko knows more than 300 signs and can combine them to make new hybrid descriptions. Director Schroeder and cinematographer Almendros present a visual argument exposing the contradictions that arise when scientific experiments are used to graph human behavior onto animals
Table Of Contents
Preface/Opening credits -- Exile -- Penny and Koko -- Red sweater -- Acquisition of signs -- Michael -- Feelings -- White, American, Protestant gorilla -- Controversy -- Breeding -- Koko's computer -- Just a gorilla? -- Part of nature -- Color bars
Technique
live action
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