Life After People Page #3

Synopsis: Visit the ghostly villages surrounding Chernobyl (abandoned by humans after the 1986 nuclear disaster), travel to remote islands off the coast of Maine to search for abandoned towns that have vanished from view in only a few decades, then head beneath the streets of New York to see how subway tunnels may become watery canals. A visual journey, LIFE AFTER PEOPLE is a thought provoking adventure that combines movie-quality visual effects with insights from experts in the fields of engineering, botany, ecology, biology, geology, climatology, and archeology to demonstrate how the very landscape of our planet will change in our absence.
Director(s): David de Vries
Production: History Channel
  Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Year:
2008
108 min
669 Views


Will hunt in what

Were once our backyards.

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One year into a life

After people,

Towns and cities

Are still recognizable.

But nature

Is beginning to reclaim

Her old turf.

one of the first

Great physical effects

In the absence of people

Would be the transition

Of the impervious surfaces:

The parking lots, the roads

Into places that supported

And then had an abundance

Of plant life.

any place

Where you have sunlight

That's hitting,

You're probably going to get

Some plant growth.

Little seeds

Are going to get stuck

In the cracks and so forth,

And these things

Are all going to start to creep?

Plants are wonderful that way.

They can destroy things

In matters of, you know,

A few years.

without humans

To remove them,

Weeds like dandelions

Infiltrate every crack

In the pavement.

As these weeds die,

Their remnants combine

With ever-spreading moss

And lichen

To create a layer of topsoil.

This sandy soil

Is poor in nutrients,

So only plants like clover

That can pull nitrogen

From the air

Flourish at first.

Formerly manicured yards

Morph into fields

For a white-tailed deer

Forage for food.

Wild animals have also begun

To find their way

Into abandoned cities.

Man's supposed domination

Over nature

Has proven to be quite tenuous.

The signs of our vulnerability

Have always been there.

this is an ailanthus tree.

It seems to enjoy rooting itself

In very inhospitable locations.

And it likes to attach itself

To crevices in buildings.

And when it does so,

It causes damage.

The roots expand,

And the expansive forces of that

Force out mortar

And stone and cause crumbling

Of a facade.

If you get a lot of this

On an entire building facade,

It could cause

Major, major damage.

as nature battles back,

Even manmade goliaths

Like hover dam

Aren't invincible.

To harness the power

Of this river

Took 21,000 men and five years

Of hard labor.

But one year after people,

Its 17 massive and seemingly

Indestructible generators

Are about to be brought down

By an organism

The size of a human thumbnail.

The lake above the dam

Is infested

With an invasive species

Of mollusk

Called the "quake mussel."

This stealthy invader

From Eastern Europe

Had no natural predators

In North America

Other than the humans tasked

With scraping it from the grates

And pipes it colonizes.

the mussels attach themselves

To the inside wall of pipes

And they're very prolific.

They colonize

And rapidly build up

And can grow

On top of each other,

And eventually completely block

The diameter of a pipe.

the small pipes

That brings cooling water

To hover dam's generators

Make perfect homes

For these creatures.

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David de Vries

David (Dave) de Vries (born 1961) is an Australian film writer, director and producer and a comic book artist and writer. David de Vries was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1961, growing up in the inner suburb of Ngaio, before emigrating to Melbourne at an early age with his parents, where he lived until he was eighteen. After studying painting at RMIT he started his comic book career in the early 1980s with work for OzComics, Phantastique, MAD Magazine and Penthouse. Together with Gary Chaloner, Glenn Lumsden and Tad Pietrzykowski he established Cyclone Comics in 1985, to ensure that their characters could be published while remaining under their control.de Vries and Lumsden entered the American market through First Comics, Nicotat and Malibu Graphics with The Southern Squadron, a superhero team that had taken over the Cyclone title. Together they have drawn a new look version of The Phantom for Marvel Comics, have worked on Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Star Trek comics for DC Comics, The Eternal Warrior Yearbook for Valiant Comics, The Puppet Master for Eternity Comics and Planet of the Apes and Flesh Gordon for Malibu Comics. de Vries also worked on a number of projects as a writer, including The Thing From Another World for First Comics, Black Lightning and a Green Lantern annual for DC, as well as recreating the origin of Captain Boomerang with John Ostrander in an episode of the Suicide Squad. de Vries currently lives in South Australia where he founded the Barossa Studios with Lumsden, David Heinrich, Rod Tokely and David G. Williams, doing artwork for magazines like Picture, People, Ralph, The Australian Financial Review and The Bulletin.In 2009 de Vries wrote and directed a feature film, Carmilla Hyde, which won 'Best Feature' at the South Australian Screen Awards in March 2010 after winning 'Best Guerilla Feature' and 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. Carmilla Hyde has won nine awards, which also include 'Best International Feature' Swansea Bay Film Festival, 'Best International Feature' International Film Festival South Africa, 'Best Australian Feature' Sexy International Film Festival and 'Best Foreign Film' Minneapolis Underground Film Festival. de Vries has written a number of live action and animation scripts for such film and TV. He is course coordinator of the Advance Production Projects for the Third Year Film & Television students at UniSA, and the Festival Director for the Barossa Film Festival. more…

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