Film
Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air
2014 · 1h 11m · Documentary
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Overview
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
- Phillip WarnellDirector
- Jean-Luc NancyWriter
- Madeleine MolyneauxProducer
- David RaedekerDirector of Photography
- Chiara ArmentanoEditor
Details
- Release date
- July 4, 2014
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 11m
- Genres
- Documentary
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