Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air (2014)

Title: Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air

Original Title: Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air

Release Date: 2014-07-04

Status: Released

Rating: 7.5/10 (from 6 votes)

Language: EN

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: Unknown

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.