Twenty One Storeys in the Air tells the story of Ming, Al, and Antoine Yates, who lived in a high-rise social housing apartment at the Drew-Hamilton complex in Harlem for several years before the revelation of their existence sparked a public outrage and collective outpouring of astonishment in New York City. Upon learning that Ming weighed 500 pounds and Al stood seven feet tall, their story took on a whole new layer of intrigue. By using lyrical analysis and text by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy to contextualize Yates' recollections of Ming and Al, the video imagines new possibilities for human-animal relationships and how they can be impacted by the predators' presence.
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Twenty One Storeys in the Air tells the story of Ming, Al, and Antoine Yates, who lived in a high-rise social housing apartment at the Drew-Hamilton complex in Harlem for several years before the revelation of their existence sparked a public outrage and collective outpouring of astonishment in New York City. Upon learning that Ming weighed 500 pounds and Al stood seven feet tall, their story took on a whole new layer of intrigue. By using lyrical analysis and text by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy to contextualize Yates' recollections of Ming and Al, the video imagines new possibilities for human-animal relationships and how they can be impacted by the predators' presence.
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