Passion Pit - Little Secrets

What this video is

Released in February 2010, this video arrived at the apex of the blog-era indie-electronic boom, when acts like Passion Pit were transitioning from MP3-blog darlings to mainstream alternative radio fixtures. The song, the third single from debut album Manners (2009) on Columbia/French Kiss Records, featured the PS22 children's chorus, and its euphoric, sugar-coated sound was emblematic of a moment when indie music…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of indietronica's mainstream crossover moment, the video synthesizes live-performance energy with conceptual art-installation logic. Its theatrical crowd-prop device prefigures later era music video crowd-spectacle tropes, and Saccenti's direction cemented his reputation as the…

The director

Timothy Saccenti is a director and photographer based in New York City working worldwide. His style blends analog lighting with modern digital mediums including 3D, holography, and lasers. He has directed music videos for Animal Collective, Depeche Mode,…