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2 days ago

The New Evangelists | Defector

Ann Lee's performance in The Testament of Ann Lee embodies the production of overt faith and challenges viewers' perceptions of living and belief.
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fromAnOther
1 month ago

Composer Daniel Blumberg on Improvisation and The Testament of Ann Lee

Daniel Blumberg, an experimental composer who doesn't read music, remixes Shaker hymns into an immersive, haunting score for The Testament of Ann Lee.
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fromKqed
1 month ago
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Entrancing 'Testament of Ann Lee' Relays the Shakers' Saga in Song and Dance

fromThe Conversation
2 months 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
6 months ago
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'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

fromKqed
1 month ago
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Entrancing 'Testament of Ann Lee' Relays the Shakers' Saga in Song and Dance

fromThe Conversation
2 months 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
6 months ago
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'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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fromIndieWire
6 months ago
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How Mona Fastvold and Daniel Blumberg Adapted Shaker Hymns for 'Ann Lee': 'The Film's Pretty Extreme. How Can We Push It Further?'

fromIndieWire
6 months ago
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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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fromSFGATE
2 months ago

Celeb appears in Bay Area for screening of oddball Oscar contender

A bold, experimental period musical portrays Ann Lee leading the celibate Shaker movement through ecstatic chants and strict communal principles.
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fromArchitectural Digest
2 months 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.
fromIndieWire
3 months 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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