Madonna's Confessions II: 10 striking moments from the new video

Madonna’s new 10-minute film, Confessions II, presents itself as a follow-up to her album Confessions on a Dance Floor. It played at the Tribeca festival and has since been watched more than a million times on YouTube. The piece treats time playfully, compressing decades into a single, imaginative sequence.

Images shift rapidly: a dominatrix pose on a chair that reads as both challenge and openness; green lasers shooting from vulvas and sometimes buttocks, signifying life force and unstoppable orgone energy; and a car crash that ends with someone kissing an airbag, a moment linked in the film to an omnivorous female libido.

Familiar faces appear in disorienting, strobe-lit vignettes. Sabrina Carpenter and Julia Garner are intercut to create deliberate ambiguity; Kate Moss does her lipstick as the line "Hide the cocaine" plays; Odessa A’Zion brings a darker, grumpier Gen Z presence; Debi Mazar shows up amid the crowd; and Gwendoline Christie is integrated into the communal, nonjudgmental scene rather than lampooned.

United States, Tribeca, New York

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