US EditionHomage to Shaker Feminist in Venice Film From Mona Fastvold
Mona Fastvold's film highlights Ann Lee's legacy and the Shaker movement, once 6,000 strong, emphasizing community, equality, and lasting cultural impact.
- The film 'The Testament of Ann Lee,' directed by Mona Fastvold, premiered this week at the Venice Film Festival and depicts the founder of the Shaker religious movement.
- Ann Lee, born in 1736 in Manchester, England, moved with a small group of followers to America in 1774 to escape religious oppression and to found a Shaker settlement close to New York.
- Lee led a community based on singing, dancing, pacifism, sexual abstinence, and manual labor as prayer, with architecture and furniture creation as spiritual acts.
- Around 1840, the Shaker movement reached its height with 6,000 followers in 19 communities; however, today only three members remain, reflecting the gradual decline of the group.
- Fastvold said she made the film to celebrate Lee's remarkable vision of kindness and building a safe, supportive community.
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Homage To Shaker Feminist In Venice Film From Mona Fastvold
With "The Testament of Ann Lee", a movie about the founder of the 18th-century Shaker religious movement screening at the Venice Film Festival, director Mona Fastvold sought to honour a figure "on the verge of being erased from memory".
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Hommage to Shaker feminist in Venice film from Mona Fastvold
With "The Testament of Ann Lee", a movie about the founder of the 18th-century Shaker religious movement screening at the Venice Film Festival, director Mona Fastvold sought to honour a figure "on the verge of being erased from memory".
·Missoula, United States
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