MTV’s Hinterland Tales has carved out its own online video niche: the vintage nature video parody. Presumably shot on 8mm, all the installments have that 70’s, classroom PSA kinda feel. A little bit of Dick Proenneke’s Alone in the Wilderness mixed with dirty old Red Asphalt, the driver’s ed. sensational scare-tactic classic. But while Hinterland take a very lighthearted approach, the punch lines are flat as a pancake. Comprised of four two-minute-or-less videos - The Ant, The Manatee, The Raven and The Bear - derived from the viral classic Spiders on Drugs, each Hinterland Tale begins with the clichéd tranquil tones of a flute, followed by a reassuring, pedagogical narrator. The narration is so convincingly authentic that you sense that it’s the real article until, usually about half way in, the parody kicks in. The ants are so efficient that they have to fire one of...
- 5/6/2009
- by Michael Shaw
- Tilzy.tv
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