Watch MGMT’s Video for New Song “Nothing to Declare”

After I was first approached by Joey to do that mission, it was the parallelism in his imaginative and prescient that first drew me in. We listened to “Nothing to Declare” as he took me by the idea of the video and I used to be met with the juxtaposition of magnificence and melancholy. Having grown up with no arms, I’ve been watched my entire life.

In some respects, the Venus de Milo has all the time felt analogous to my life, and particularly to the character I painting on this movie. She’s adored, revered, and virtually always surrounded by folks, and but she stands alone and her previous is unknown. There have all the time been questions surrounding her arms and she or he has by no means needed to reply or show her price. From my perspective, she has nothing to declare. Taking part in this character that’s totally different, and never simply because she doesn’t have arms, however by the way in which she handles the distinction and nonetheless feeds on new curiosity was a extremely stunning expertise.

As a person, the tune and movie resonated to me in one other approach as properly. On the time of the preliminary filming I had simply been identified with stage III breast most cancers. This modified my private notion of the movie and pulled me away from seeing it as a technique to artistically see how my character exists with variations inside her setting, and made it an expertise of the person. At this time limit, to me, “Nothing to Declare” now not meant that you simply don’t have to elucidate your circumstances, however as an alternative it felt like a literal assertion going by the customs of life.

After this analysis, I couldn’t exist as the identical particular person I used to be. I needed to put loads of my private targets apart to concentrate on my well being and restoration. In that respect, I needed to finish one chapter of my life and enter a brand new one. A chapter that doesn’t care about who I used to be earlier than or what aspirations I used to be striving towards. As a substitute, one which focuses on eradicating all of the most cancers and solely then will I be capable to begin residing once more. My want is for folks to observe the video and benefit from the artwork and thriller. I hope the vulnerability and curiosity that we captured is felt by the viewer.