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UNDERCITY from Andrew Wonder on Vimeo.
Steve Duncan lives dangerously. The urban explorer goes underground, examining the hidden infrastructure of major cities all over the world — their tunnels, subways, sewers.
In New York City, his favorite underground adventure, he could drown when the tide comes in or succumb to toxic gases in the sewers. He could be hit by a train or step on the third rail. And if he gets caught, he would be so under arrest.
So why does he do it? If you could have followed Alice down that rabbit hole, or Jules Verne to the center of the Earth, or gone to see the mandrake-god in Pan’s Labyrinth, wouldn't you do it? It's seductive. It's mysterious. It's what lies beneath.
Duncan, 32, is a graduate of Columbia University working on his doctorate in urban history at the University of California. He looks like a human sparkler, with a shock of white-blond hair.
Call him what you will — including crazy. But while you sleep, he's plunged far below the city surface — headlamp on, an urban mole, exploring the nether regions of New York.
Producer Brent Baughman and I followed Duncan — not down every manhole, but, hey, we stood anxiously beside a few — on a journey through 25 miles of New York City underground.
This is sick.
