Interview with Masstor / Berlin Music Video Awards 2024

Berlin Music Video Awards

Discover the interview with Masstor! He was nominated with the music video "MASSTOR - Self Control" in the "Best Art Director" category and won the first place! He also won the third place in the "Best Music Video".   Check the full music video "MASSTOR - Self Control":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV7CSjmIQ6k   Follow them:  @MasstorOfficial  @riffrafffilms   Credits :  Interview and edit by Sebastian Sheath and Yannick Solandt (unsigned Berlin): https://www.youtube.com/@unsignedberlin   Do you want to be part of the Berlin Music Video Awards as well? Submit your video here: https://www.berlinmva.com/submit/ We are now taking submissions.

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00:00First of all, can you introduce yourself?

00:17What's your name and what are you here for?

00:19I am Mastor and I am here for Best Art Direction, which I just won.

00:24Congratulations.

00:25How does it feel to win?

00:26It feels wonderful to win.

00:28Art Direction, number one, is the most important thing to me.

00:31That's what I'm into first and foremost, because it's sort of an all-compounding theme and

00:37that's what I really like.

00:39I'm not interested in a movie, if it just happens to be set in reality, I want some

00:43art direction to it.

00:44So it's very important to me that I was in this category to begin with, and then to win

00:47feels wonderful.

00:48I live among the creatures of the night.

00:49I haven't got the will to try and fight.

00:51I live among the creatures of the night.

00:55I haven't got the will to try and fight.

00:59It's my world.

01:01Awesome.

01:02Did you put all of this together yourself?

01:03I did, as well as the other monsters in the video.

01:06It's actually shot in my home.

01:08If you watch the video, you'll see everything here seems as though it's art directed.

01:13It is art directed, but it is actually my home.

01:16So you're saying your bedroom isn't just like...

01:18That's my actual bedroom.

01:21City lights.

01:22Painted girls.

01:24City lights.

01:26Do you have any fun stories maybe from this set, when you were putting it together, you

01:29could tell?

01:31Well, what's funny is that David, the director, was so talented, I was like trying to act.

01:38It's kind of hard to act through a monster suit.

01:41So I said, you have to do these exaggerated gestures.

01:44And he's like, you're really giving me Elizabeth Taylor.

01:47And I was like, no, no, no, it's giving me Elizabeth Taylor.

01:49But he loved it.

01:50That's what he wanted.

01:51So it ended up being great.

01:52But you're like, I can't do anything but Elizabeth Taylor.

01:55I drew a mole through this much latex.

01:57I was very happy that somehow that came across.

02:00How did you choose him to work with as a director?

02:03You know what's funny is, do you know how I chose him?

02:05He chose me.

02:06And it was a wonderful chance of luck, is that I was on Instagram.

02:11As myself.

02:12Not as Master.

02:14So, just by happenstance, I met David.

02:18And we just liked the same thing.

02:19Do you post a picture of Grace Jones?

02:20I would post a picture of Grace Jones.

02:22And we just ended up becoming friends.

02:23And he said, do you know what I do for a living?

02:25And I was like, no, what do you do for a living?

02:27And this was about a month into knowing him.

02:29And he's like, oh, I make music video.

02:31And I live in Los Angeles, so I was kind of like, OK, cool.

02:35You know, like, lots of people make music videos.

02:37And then I'm like, what music videos?

02:38And he's like, da-da-da-da-da-da.

02:40And I was like, oh, you make real music videos?

02:43And so it just so happened, for fun, I had recorded a song.

02:48And he had said, if I'm not a singer, he's a connoisseur of a song.

02:52And I played it for him.

02:53And he's like, I love it.

02:54Can I make your music video?

02:55And I thought, I genuinely thought, oh, this is a stun.

02:58This is a scam.

03:00I may know what I need to do.

03:01Yeah, yeah, yeah.

03:02I thought, this is a guy who's like, he's finding somebody who's like, insane.

03:08And that he could trick and be like, oh, yeah, all it takes is just give me some $2,000.

03:13And we're going to make this amazing video.

03:15But it was real.

03:16But I genuinely thought it was fake.

03:18And then it ended up being this wonderful thing.

03:20So it has turned into this award-winning.

03:22In the night, no control.

03:27Through the wall, something's breaking.

03:31Wearing white as you're walking down the street of my soul.

03:40You take myself.

03:42You take my self-control.

03:44You've got me living only for the night.

03:48Before the morning comes, the story's told.

03:52You take myself.

03:54You take my self-control.

03:56Can you talk a little bit about Mastro?

03:58When did it start?

03:59What does it mean, if anything?

04:01Oh, well, Mastro, just to create, I'm a big fan of like,

04:05fantasy and sci-fi and stuff like that.

04:07And, you know, Skeletor is like my personal hero.

04:10And I thought, why can't I just make one?

04:12Why don't I just, you know, it's like,

04:14if you could design yourself in any way,

04:16what would you be?

04:18And so Mastro is the answer to that.

04:21It was beautiful.

04:22Can you describe the energy of the BMBAs a little bit?

04:25Maybe in three words, if you can.

04:27I'll go for it.

04:29You've got a bunch to say.

04:30Cool, creative.

04:32What's the third word?

04:35Cool, creative, and just on the pulse,

04:37but that's not a third word.

04:38You know what I'm saying?

04:39That's good enough.

04:40It reminds me of, like, when I was at CalArts.

04:43It's just these, like, really high creative levels

04:49of people coming together who are making things.

04:52They're not just creative.

04:53They're making things.

04:54And there's a huge difference in that.

04:56But it's actually pretty scary to make things.

04:58Like, that's the one thing I learned in school,

05:00is that make anything.

05:02Because that leads to the next thing.

05:04And I was always so afraid of critique and being criticized,

05:08hence being a person that hides underneath a monster.

05:11So I turned that into a thing.

05:14But I was saying to my friend, I was like,

05:17it's so awesome being around all these people

05:19for all the talents, whether it's the vanities,

05:22or, you know, just the music, or what have you.

05:25I just love being around the creative people,

05:27so it's great.

05:28I must say, you're an incredible interviewee.

05:30You articulate yourself very well.

05:32One last question.

05:33Is there a song in your playlist right now

05:35that you want to get out to more people,

05:37that more people should know about?

05:41Oh, gosh.

05:42I am, honestly, through every single day,

05:47I am a woman in love like Barbra Streisand.

05:50A fan is not.

05:53It's so crazy.

05:55And I don't know why it makes for a phenomenal workout song.

06:01Never think something that's not.

06:02It's real deep and low energy.

06:04But it's so intense.

06:06And she has so much, like,

06:07I am a woman in love.

06:09And I will do anything.

06:11Like, she's on the edge.

06:13And it's so hard.

06:14It's more hard than anything.

06:16It's more hard than anything.

06:17I do legs through it.

06:19I am a woman in love by Barbra Streisand

06:21is the song right now.

06:23It's out in Europe.

06:24Beautiful.

06:25Next time I walk it out, I'll try it.

06:26Thank you very much.

06:27City lights.

06:29Painted girls.

06:31Painted girls.

06:33Painted girls.

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