ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: Daniel Corey

SONG: Secret World FROM Us

Video info:

Secret World has been with me for 33 years, ever since I first heard it on Us, my favourite Peter Gabriel album. The song has always held deep meaning for me, exploring the distance between who we are, what we hide, what we share, and what we lose. I’ve always been drawn to the emotional gravity of Peter’s music and have always loved the cinematic textures he creates with producer Daniel Lanois, whose work I also deeply admire.

With this project, I wanted to imagine an entire secret history behind the Secret World—a hidden mythology—and use that as a metaphor for our own personal journeys through life, love, and relationships. I built the visuals using photos from my archive, layering and animating them with tools like Photoshop, Midjourney, and Luma AI Dream Machine to create a dreamlike, immersive experience. This piece is both a tribute to the song and a reflection of what it’s meant to me over decades of listening.

Song info:

Secret World is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's album Us, released in September 1992.

Words and music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Daniel Lanois and Peter Gabriel.

Published by Real World Music Ltd. / Sony Music Publishing.

“Sometimes, when you look around, everything seems still and calm on the surface and then you detect a little disturbance and you know for sure that underneath the surface lies some other secret world”

-pg