Illuminating Madonna’s Film
Award winning British designer Lee Broom collaborated with Madonna to create a bespoke version of his signature 2015 Crystal Tube Light, a cut-glass, handcrafted piece adapted to a longer-than-standard, two metre version to illuminate the One Step Away kitchen scene in Confessions II – The Film, directed by TORSO and produced by Division.
Wallpaper magazine published today and intriguing story by Lisa Wright filled with in-depth details about the design and production process – check it out here. Thanks to the article, we now know that the One Step Away scene was filmed in a locked down location in London.
Together with the full design analysis – which gives you a clear idea of how much work, research and passion has been infused in the film – Broom shared with Wallpaper a few more personal things about Madonna.
I was thrilled. Growing up, I really appreciated her artistry not just as a musician but as a visionary, a spokesperson for LGBTQ+ rights, and an all-round blueprint for the pop industry. I grew up in theatre and then went into fashion, so performance, art, fashion, design all infiltrated my work. An artist like Madonna who has a sort of performative storytelling, pushing-the-envelope quality to their work – I was completely sucked in.
When you talk specifically about the design industry, it’s a very loose, open word, but it’s actually very specific. (…) It’s restricted in a way, and I feel like the general public who aren’t in that industry sometimes find it difficult to connect with what we’re producing. So when you have an opportunity to insert your work and your vision into something as globally iconic and as popular as a Madonna music video or film, it opens it up into a different ether that people aren’t used to.
For my 16th birthday, I remember getting my mother to buy me Madonna’s SEX book. She got her friend Audrey, who worked next door to Waterstones, to queue up in the morning and buy it, neither of them knowing exactly what the content of the book was. It was literally the best birthday present I’ve ever had, even though she wasn’t so happy when she actually got to see what was inside…
Read the full story at wallpaper.com.
