EVAN GIIA - tiny life

What this video is

Released October 2, 2020, 'tiny life' arrived at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when global lockdowns had suspended live music touring and collective social life. EVAN GIIA — a Brooklyn-based, Berklee College of Music-trained electropop artist signed to Astralwerks/UMG — channeled the cultural mood of enforced stillness into an affirmative celebration of small-scale, rural joy. The video's production…

Why it matters

Represents a pivotal moment in indie electropop's pandemic-era aesthetic evolution — the shift from polished, performance-stage productions to grounded, location-based DIY filmmaking. EVAN GIIA's trajectory from ODESZA's Foreign Family Collective to a major Astralwerks deal is documented here as a…

The director

Harry Giarrusso is a filmmaker and the brother of EVAN GIIA (Evan Giarrusso). He directed the official music video for 'tiny life' (2020), shot on location in rural Massachusetts during COVID-19 quarantine. No other major commercial directing credits are…