Interview with SUPERMODEL / Berlin Music Video Awards 2024

Berlin Music Video Awards

Discover the interview with SUPERMODEL : Emile Rafael & Joe Connor, performers and nominees in the "Best Song" category.  Their song "PUSH" won second place!   Check the full music video "SUPERMODEL - PUSH"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhCDXbFOkpo   Follow them:  @supermodel.studio  @helloemile / @joevconnor   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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00:00We're good to go, can you introduce yourselves?

00:13What are your names?

00:14Where are you from?

00:15I'm Emil, I live in London.

00:18And I'm Joe, and I also live in London.

00:21And what are you doing here today?

00:23We are supermodel.

00:24Nice.

00:25And if people don't know who you are, what can they expect from a supermodel show?

00:30They can sell the night.

00:33I think if you don't know, I mean we don't even really know what a supermodel show is

00:38because there's a lot of spontaneity that comes out of that show.

00:42It's a creative space where a lot of things can happen.

00:46So we kind of rehearsed a rough idea, but then that went out the window within two minutes

00:51and you just get full-blown madness for bearing up, so track by track, nice.

01:14And you were nominated for Best Song with a really amazing video, but neither of you

01:20were in it.

01:21What's the idea behind that?

01:23I just saw these pictures of this seance taking place a long time ago.

01:29Obviously there were doctors.

01:30And I thought it was really interesting, yeah, people really believing in the supernatural.

01:37And I mean, I think we do believe in the supernatural, so we wanted to create a seance to get that

01:46energy out.

01:47And I think it came out, didn't it?

01:48In the video.

01:49Yeah.

01:50Yeah.

01:51And I also think, you know, like we said, we love for ourselves, you know, the interesting

02:00thing about creating like a musical project is to kind of define the world and create

02:05the world.

02:06And I think it doesn't necessarily need to be hinged on what we look like or who we are.

02:11And you know, it's not a personality cult.

02:14It's like a, it's a, it's a world and a vibe and a feeling that met it, you know, though

02:19it'd be in it.

02:20You also chosen to be independent, if I'm right for this, like independently releasing

02:23the music.

02:24Yeah.

02:25I mean, that's just, you know, we've, we've had, we're really blessed to have careers

02:31as, as like commercial filmmakers outside of making music.

02:37So we're not, we don't have the pressure of needing labels to necessarily like, you

02:44know, yeah.

02:45And also like help us record music and, you know, we both can produce music, we can both

02:50play lots of instruments and so we can kind of do ourselves a lot.

02:56Yeah.

02:57Yeah.

02:58I think, I think that's a very nice thing.

03:00I think it's a, we're obviously, you know, we're both very creative people in a sense.

03:08And I think for us it's a, it's not a creative outlet, you know, like we can put a lot of

03:14things into it.

03:15Like, you know, the covers are Joe's photography or my paintings or, you know, I feel like

03:21we feel totally free in this and that's what makes it really good for us.

03:27Yeah.

03:28I think that's the nicest way a label would just be like, Oh, I'm not sure about that

03:31painting.

03:32Take that.

03:33You know, it's like, yeah.

03:34Yeah.

03:35Like just tape.

03:36You don't.

03:37Yeah.

03:38Yeah.

03:39Yeah.

03:40Can you maybe describe the event for people who haven't been, what can they expect from

03:49the BMVS?

03:50I mean, I, I think, I think that it's a, it's a most creatively unique sort of version of

04:00this festival I've ever seen where, you know, a lot of the time these things are really

04:05stale.

04:06They're very like stunted.

04:08And this is just super free and really fun.

04:11And there's a lot of different people and a lot of different types of work and a lot

04:15of people from all over the world.

04:18I think that's reflected in the style of film that gets sort of recognized here, which is

04:25maybe not what is recognized at other, these are video awards just because they're not,

04:31you know, it's not Harry Styles and Ed Sheeran and whatever.

04:34It's like, there's something a bit more like rootsy about it underground, but still like

04:38incredible quality than anything else.

04:40It's kind of the vibe of this, well, this thing, I think.

04:43Yeah.

04:44Yeah.

04:45Are we talking about the festival?

04:46Yeah.

04:47I think it's amazing.

04:49I just love the atmosphere and it just has this like really good sense of, yeah, just

04:59like freedom.

05:00It just feels, it's all about the videos.

05:03They screen them full length, it's, you know, you have really good sound and everybody's

05:10just watching and just really vibing to the videos.

05:13It's just amazing.

05:14I think it's amazing.

05:15You know, most of the time with a music video, you see it on your screen, you see it on YouTube

05:19and it's like, you know, you don't have the best sound, but this is like big picture and

05:26you just realize just how much creativity goes into them.

05:30It's amazing.

05:31I've seen like some incredible work here.

05:33So we're just so, we're so like grateful to be nominated or to be in this really.

05:41Yeah.

05:42That's good to hear.

05:43Awesome.

05:44Thank you very much.

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