Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air
2014, English. Directed by Phillip Warnell.
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.
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- 1h 11m
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- English
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- 4 July 2014
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Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air runs 71 minutes (1h 11m).
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Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 4 July 2014. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air?
Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air (2014) was directed by Phillip Warnell and stars Antoine Yates, Rajiv, Brianna.