Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys In The Air

This documentary by Phillip Warnell explores the secret lives, behavior and extreme levels of intimacy and communication between humans and animals, focusing on the history of Antoine Yates and his coexistence in a building in Harlem, New York, with Ming, a five-hundred-pound tiger and Al, a seven-foot alligator, combined with filmic observation of predators in domesticated geographies. The film is starring by the real protagonists of history and combines real images with the archive footage. First feature documentary by Phillip Warnell after directed three short documentaries. 'Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air' is based on the poem by Jean-Luc Nancy and has gone through festivals such as New York, Amsterdam or Vancouver.