Interview with Viktor Horvath / Berlin Music Video Awards 2024
Discover the interview with Viktor Horvath, director of the music video "Carson Coma - FELDOBOM A KÖVET", nominee in the "Best Director" category.
Check the full music video "Carson Coma - FELDOBOM A KÖVET"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R57gv7jjT-o
Follow them:
@vadkezu
@carsoncoma
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.
Check the full music video "Carson Coma - FELDOBOM A KÖVET"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R57gv7jjT-o
Follow them:
@vadkezu
@carsoncoma
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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00:00Introduce yourself to get started.
00:13What's your name?
00:14Where are you from?
00:15I'm Victor Horvat.
00:16I'm a music video director from Hungary, but I live in Los Angeles in the last five years
00:21and I'm super, super stoked to be back in Berlin.
00:25And what are you here for?
00:27For the nominee of Best Director category, I guess.
00:33And yeah, it's just a really fun band called Carson Cola, they're from Hungary and yeah.
00:49You won, nine years ago, 2015, you won Best Concept.
00:53This time you were nominated for a different category, but the concept is still a really
00:57important part of the video.
00:59How do you try to make sure that that's a part of every video you do?
01:03Are you there from the very start?
01:08Probably I'm just a really big fan of the genre, the music video genre itself and whenever
01:14I'm trying to go up with something, I'm trying to respect whatever I've seen before and I'm
01:21trying to just do something that I haven't seen before.
01:26And something that impresses me, something that sometimes resonates with people who are
01:32dealing with everyday awkwardness, like everyday awkwardness and something that gives you this
01:37secondhand embarrassment is always like fascinating, so that's probably something that my head
01:43usually goes to.
01:45Well, yeah, I'm just always trying to come up with something that I think people would
01:55resonate with.
01:56That's really nice.
01:57And how was working with The Bat, with the video?
01:58It was very interesting, actually, because while the band and the rest of the crew was
02:06working hard in Budapest, Hungary, where the music video took place, I was in my apartment
02:12in Los Angeles on a Zoom meeting and like whispering into the ear of our first AD, Krzysztof
02:20and then...
02:34This is a kind of video game-y look to the video, I don't know if you know what I'm talking
02:38about.
02:39Kind of what?
02:40Video game-y look?
02:41Video game-y look, wow, that's interesting.
02:44Yeah, actually, probably the camera movements and the fact that every single location and
02:50scene is kind of grainy and elevated and like, yeah.
02:55How did you achieve that?
02:57I get it.
02:59You just need to hire the best DP and the best location manager and the best production
03:05designer, and yeah, they did the rest of the job.
03:09And it's really easy to find that kind of grainy, haunted house-looking locations in
03:16Hungary, like in Eastern Europe in general, I guess.
03:22And it looks nice, it has a really recognizable aesthetic for sure, but if you want to do
03:29something grainy, something depressing, then you should go to Hungary and see that.
03:35Can you talk about the symbolism, or what it means, the name of the song?
03:40Fedul or Tövät Nizam, I throw the stone up in the sky, it's a really...
03:47The whole, yeah, the entire lyrics is trying to fill with a lot of like, political kind
03:56of stuff, but not in a really in-your-face way, very poetically.
04:03It just, whatever you see on the music video, it kind of resonates with the lyrics in a
04:09really nice and elevated and whimsy way.
04:13But yeah, it's a really nice lyrics, it was definitely a huge inspiration when I came
04:19up with the idea.
04:24And the band actually, besides the lyrics, they had some really short brief about the
04:31concept, so they just wanted to do something that feels like a single take, and it's also
04:37kind of telling the story of a guy, from birth to the death.
04:41And I found both things kind of cliché-ish, but I think the way we approached it and the
04:49way we put it up was kind of like, you saw that kind of story before, obviously a lifetime
04:56in five minutes, it's always filled with really stereotypical ideas, so I was trying my best
05:06to make them look a bit more interesting and unique.
05:10It definitely worked, I didn't think of that, it makes sense now you say it, but I didn't
05:13think of it while watching.
05:15Those are actually like traumatic moments of someone's life, so it's like a trauma lookbook
05:23of someone's life, so it was a really sad, tragic life.
05:26And actually that was really funny because my sling saw that music video and she really
05:32still wants to talk about it with me, and I'm like, we never really have time to talk
05:37about the music video because there's always some bigger fish to fry, but it's just so
05:41funny that she found it very interesting that she really wants to talk about it.
05:46It's going to be an interesting...
05:48Just to clarify, it's not based on any real life experiences or anything, it's just outward
05:57life stuff.
05:58Yeah, did you grow up in Hungary?
05:59I did, yeah.
06:00Okay, it makes sense because it's very rooted in Hungarian culture.
06:04Absolutely.
06:05Cool, well thank you very much for the interview.
06:06Thank you, man.
06:07Thank you.
06:18Bye.