formschon:

this video is so crazy; chris cunningham, who directed bjork’s “all is full of love,” said that this inspired him to get into directing videos; mark romanek, the video’s director, also made jay-z’s “99 problems” video and madonna’s own “bedtime story” treatment

ryuichi sakamoto plays the director who leads madonna through the shots, which are themselves brilliantly conceived; the silver chair she’s sitting on was created by marc newson, whose designs became definitive of 90s futurism

as per usual, the video also includes some dramatic engagement with racial otherness, marked especially by madonna’s dark black wig and the all-Asian cast who acts as a crew;