BAFTA Award winner Yulia Mahr's new video for Max Richter's MercyFILM HIGHLIGHTS HUMAN COMPASSION IN OUR TUMULTUOUS WORLDNEW SINGLE ‘MERCY’: OUT TODAY ON DECCA RECORDS VOICES ALBUM RELEASE: 31ST JULY 2020OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASENEWS PROVIDED BY Decca Records BAFTA-winning artist filmmaker Yulia Mahr is to reveal her new video for Mercy, the second single from Max Richter’s forthcoming album release of VOICES - a major new recording project inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights released via Decca Records. The film is an artistic response to our turbulent times and the human potential for compassion. Mercy follows the release of the first single, ‘All Human Beings’, which is Richter’s fastest-streamed track on release reflecting a huge public response to the themes of the album. At the heart of VOICES is a profound sense of global community, born out of Richter and Mahr’s career-long stance that creativity can play an activist role in our world. In a time of dramatic global change, Mercy offers a moment for personal reflection. In the video, Mahr poignantly shines a light on our inner lives and leans on her own experiences.
I took inspiration from my own memories of arriving in the UK aged seven, completely at sea in this new world. It all has such a dreamlike quality now.” As the sole Producer, Director, Writer and Editor, Mahr likens her solitary filmmaking practice to literary creation. Working exclusively with pre-existing footage (archive, library, found and stock clips), Mahr works with images as a poet does with words. Yulia commented:
Richter and Mahr have worked together for over 25 years as part of Studio Richter Mahr, a collaborative home for their creative projects. At its core is the belief that creativity exists as a social project that can illuminate the lives of individuals and society as a whole, and that art exists beyond all boundaries. Max’s latest work VOICES is published through Decca Publishing, where he became the first ever signing following its launch in 2016. AboutAbout Yulia Mahr Yulia Mahr is a visual artist and filmmaker with a background in visual anthropology. She has worked both in the academic field and as a practitioner / curator, often in collaboration with her partner Max Richter. Recent and current projects include the Sounds and Visions festival at The Barbican Centre, London; Le Weekend Festival at La Philharmonie de Paris, and the ongoing series of SLEEP performances, latterly in New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, Amsterdam, Austin, Paris, London and Beijing. Yulia’s numerous films have been shown at Tribeca and Edinburgh film festivals amongst others, and been featured on Arte, WallPaper Magazine, Nowness and Vimeo Staff Picks. She has been awarded a BAFTA. Yulia is creative and visual director of Studio Richter Mahr.
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July 10, 2020 5:11am ET by Decca Records |