Madonna -Human Nature - Madonna -Human Nature

What this video is

Released June 6, 1995 as the fourth and final single from Madonna's sixth studio album Bedtime Stories, 'Human Nature' was a direct artistic rebuttal to the critical and commercial backlash Madonna received following the 1992 releases of the Sex book and the Erotica album. The video — set in claustrophobic white boxes, populated with latex-clad dancers — literalized the song's theme of defiant unapologetic…

Why it matters

A landmark in 1990s R&B-inflected pop video production, 'Human Nature' demonstrates how Mondino's fashion-photography minimalism could amplify lyrical defiance through spatial constraint. The video's cubicle grid format is a formally innovative solution to the choreographic clip, stripping away…

The director

Born 21 July 1949 in Aubervilliers, France. French fashion photographer and music video director. Began career as a DJ and composer in London in the 1970s before transitioning to advertising art direction in Paris. Broke internationally with Don Henley's…