- Music
- 05 Nov 21
WATCH: 'Puppets' music video commemorates fifth anniversary of Leonard Cohen's passing
Watch the final video from Cohen's posthumous album Thanks for the Dance below.
The music video for Leonard Cohen's 'Puppets' has been shared today, November 5. The release commemorates the fifth anniversary of the musician's death on November 7, 2016.
The 'Puppets' music video is the final video to be released from Cohen's posthumous album, Thanks for the Dance. Directed by Daniel Askill and produced by the late musician's son Adam Cohen, the black and white visual features Bobbi Salvör Menuez.
"It has been such a gift to have the opportunity to create these visual responses to the music of Leonard Cohen," said Daniel Askill. "Cohen has an incredible ability to create a bridge between the sublime and the prosaic – the metaphysical and political."
"This video for 'Puppets' has been born out of a wonderful ongoing dialogue with Adam Cohen," he added. "It is in some ways a darker counter point to the first film we made for 'Happens to the Heart.' In many ways, it is visually pointing to the idea that Leonard often beautifully evokes in different ways – that the darkness and the light of our experience is deeply entangled – and maybe at a fundamental level they are in fact one and the same."
Watch the music video for 'Puppets' below:
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