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fromArchitectural Digest
2 weeks ago

The Shakers: How an Early Christian Sect Defined One of America's Most Enduring Craft Traditions

Shakerism was an all-consuming 18th-century Christian sect defined by celibacy, communal living, confession, and enduring influence on American furniture and craft design.
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fromThe Conversation
2 weeks ago
Philosophy

The celibate, dancing Shakers were once seen as a threat to society - 250 years later, they're part of the sound of America

The Testament of Ann Lee portrays Ann Lee and Shaker worship through intense imagery, music, ecstatic dancing, and ritual, filmed partly at Hancock Shaker Village.
fromIndieWire
4 months ago
Film

'The Testament of Ann Lee' Review: Amanda Seyfried Is a Singing Female Christ Figure in Mona Fastvold's Incredible Quasi-Musical About the Shaker Prophet

The Testament of Ann Lee portrays Ann Lee's Shaker movement as a rapturous, hymn-driven biopic that prioritizes ecstatic choreography and collective spiritual unity over lyrical content.
fromThe Conversation
2 weeks ago
Philosophy

The celibate, dancing Shakers were once seen as a threat to society - 250 years later, they're part of the sound of America

fromIndieWire
4 months ago
Film

'The Testament of Ann Lee' Review: Amanda Seyfried Is a Singing Female Christ Figure in Mona Fastvold's Incredible Quasi-Musical About the Shaker Prophet

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fromABC7 Los Angeles
3 weeks ago

Amanda Seyfried describes her new unconventional musical biopic at the film's premiere

An unorthodox musical biopic starring Amanda Seyfried chronicles 18th-century Shaker leader Ann Lee and premieres Dec. 25.
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fromIndieWire
1 month ago

To Build Her 'The Testament of Ann Lee,' Filmmaker Mona Fastvold Had to Imagine Her Own Kind of Utopia

Mona Fastvold has always been drawn to stories about women who lived their lives in the future. Women who dared to imagine how bitter pasts might give way to brighter tomorrows, and did what they could to bring those changes into being. Women - immigrants and settlers - who embodied the utopian potential of a country that has always struggled to live by its own principles, and refused to accept that they were ahead of their time.
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fromIndieWire
3 months ago
Film

How Mona Fastvold and Daniel Blumberg Adapted Shaker Hymns for 'Ann Lee': 'The Film's Pretty Extreme. How Can We Push It Further?'

fromIndieWire
3 months ago
Film

How Mona Fastvold and Daniel Blumberg Adapted Shaker Hymns for 'Ann Lee': 'The Film's Pretty Extreme. How Can We Push It Further?'

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