The Tribeca Film Festival announced Tuesday that Madonna will return to the festival this year for the June 5 world premiere of a visual musical work to accompany her upcoming album, ‘Confessions II,’ due out July 3.
The project, which bears the same name as the musical production and will be presented at the Beacon Theater, is described by the festival as “an ambitious visual work” of more than ten minutes, built around the first six songs of the album, which include ‘I Feel So Free’ and 0Bring Your Love0, with Sabrina Carpenter.
‘Confessions II,’ directed by David Toro and Solomon Chase, “weaves interconnected musical sequences into an immersive cinematic experience.” Following the presentation, the artist will talk with the directors, according to a statement.
“A film that gives physicality to the music, ‘Confessions II’ lives in the tension between control and surrender, between being seen and disappearing into the crowd. Each song unfolds over six chapters, each a sensual thriller, a dance illusion, an epic fever dream,” the festival noted.
The note adds that, like the album, the work blurs the distinction between the songs, “constructing cosmic narratives that follow a twisted dream logic”; and that, the result is a transcendental journey that catapults the viewer through a night of debauchery that is remembered not for what happened, but for how it felt.
Last April, the singer announced that on July 3 she will release her new album, ‘Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II’, the follow-up to her 2005 album and her return to the Warner label and dance floor music.
Madonna indicated, on that occasion, that when she began working with producer Stuart Price on this production, his manifesto was: “We must dance, celebrate and pray with our bodies”.
According to the Tribeca release, the musical will take the viewer to revisit the “sanctuaries” in Madonna’s career and life: privacy and publicity, mourning and catharsis, intimacy and communion, fanaticism and collaboration, and the dance floor.
“Madonna has been proving for decades that reinvention is an art in itself,” said festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal, who added that ‘Confessions II’ is an “immersive, provocative and totally current experience, evoking the nocturnal mythology that only she could create,” reported Agencia EFE.
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