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

Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air: Directed by Phillip Warnell. With Antoine Yates, Rajiv, Brianna, Johnny Jarrett-Graham. A documentary exploring secret lives, behavior and extreme levels of human-beast intimacy and communication, focusing on the ‘only in New York’ story of Antoine Yates and his cohabitation in a Harlem high-rise with Ming, a five-hundred-pound tiger and Al, a seven-foot alligator, combined with filmic observation of predators in domesticated geographies.

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