This Sunday (November 7) marks five years since Leonard Cohen's death, and a new video for his posthumous 2019 song "Puppets" has been released today in commemoration.
"Puppets" appeared on Cohen's Thanks for the Dance, the 2019 record that featured vocals recorded around the same time as his 2016 album You Want It Darker.
The black-and-white video features a kid dressed in Cohen cosplay wandering an alleyway before a fiery ending.
About the video, director Daniel Askill said:
It has been such a gift to have the opportunity to create these visual responses to the music of Leonard Cohen. Cohen has an incredible ability to create a bridge between the sublime and the prosaic — the metaphysical and political. In "Puppets," he does that while addressing dark themes with a poetic insight.
This video for "Puppets" has been born out of a wonderful ongoing dialogue with Adam Cohen. It is in some ways a darker counterpoint to the first film we made for "Happens to the Heart." Shot on location in New York, this film follows the symbolic journey of a single figure through darkness towards a transcendence. 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.
Check out the video below.
"Puppets" appeared on Cohen's Thanks for the Dance, the 2019 record that featured vocals recorded around the same time as his 2016 album You Want It Darker.
The black-and-white video features a kid dressed in Cohen cosplay wandering an alleyway before a fiery ending.
About the video, director Daniel Askill said:
It has been such a gift to have the opportunity to create these visual responses to the music of Leonard Cohen. Cohen has an incredible ability to create a bridge between the sublime and the prosaic — the metaphysical and political. In "Puppets," he does that while addressing dark themes with a poetic insight.
This video for "Puppets" has been born out of a wonderful ongoing dialogue with Adam Cohen. It is in some ways a darker counterpoint to the first film we made for "Happens to the Heart." Shot on location in New York, this film follows the symbolic journey of a single figure through darkness towards a transcendence. 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.
Check out the video below.
