NOWNESS has collaborated with the Leonard Cohen Estate to mark the release of the legendary musician’s last original posthumous album, Thanks For The Dance. This exciting project brings together a talented host of filmmakers to share their artistic responses to Cohen’s previously unheard body of work, which Sony Music will be unveiling in full in November. 

Brazilian singer, songwriter and poet Rodrigo Amarante shares his visual take on “The Goal”—the sixth track from Thanks For The Dance—that evolved from Cohen’s 1998 poem of the same name. His film balances themes of hope and resolution in the form of a contemplative female protagonist caught in a busy metropolitan crowd. "A poem is a ludicrous reenactment that speaks the truth, like memory," says the musician turned director. "This is a story of longing, a tale of daydreaming, of memory which is poetry".

Amarante has been a member of popular musical groups, such as Orquestra Imperial and Rio de Janeiro rock band Los Hermanos. In 2007 he went on to form LA-based supergroup Little Joy with The Strokes’ Fabrizio Moretti and singer Binki Shapiro. Amarante’s songwriting is infused with a mellow sweetness that moves between indie, bossa nova and pop—leading to high-profile collaborations with titans of Brazilian music, such as Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé and Marisa Monte. Amarante is currently marking on a successful solo career—most notably writing the theme tune for Netflix hit series, Narcos. 

Sony Music will be releasing Thanks For The Dance on 22 November 2019