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Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air (2014)
Directed by Phillip Warnell
Documentary · 1h 11m
Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air is an only-in-New-York account of Ming, Al, and Antoine Yates, who cohabited in a high-rise social housing apartment at Drew-Hamilton complex in Harlem for several years until 2003, when news of their dwelling caused a public outcry and collective outpouring of disbelief. On the discovery that Ming was a 500-pound pound Tiger and Al a seven-foot alligator, their story took on an astonishing dimension. The film frames Yates’s recollections with a poetic study of Ming and Al, the predators’ presence combined with a text by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, reimagining the circumstances of the wild inside, animal names, strange territories, and human-animal relations.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Phillip Warnell
- Writer
- Jean-Luc Nancy
- Director of Photography
- David Raedeker
- Editor
- Chiara Armentano
- Producer
- Madeleine Molyneaux
Details
- Release date
- 2014-07-04
- Runtime
- 1h 11m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN