cinema antiplastique
is a film and movement studio where we share the intuitive
movement techniques of dancers with the people -
to resource individuals and communities with tools for self renewal,
embodied connection, autonomy and emotional regulation in these times.
frequently asked questions
offerings
“Dance is not for dancers, dance is for man.”
- Mary Starks Whitehouse
calendar coming soon! thank you for your patience as we continue to update our website in advance of our fall opening.
movement and moving image workshops (in person)
Re-Wilding with cinema antiplastique: Joy in Wilderness
Moving away from Phones
Parenting: Animal Kin
Celebrating Aging with Orcas
Palestinian & Swana Mothers Circle
Queering Time, for Mental Health Workers
* Individual Sessions for Artists with Dr Rania Lee Khalil
online workshops (live / synchronous)
Shy dance party
Co regulating with pets
events
Algeria ‘69 Festival, 2026
Stevie Wonder birthday party 2026
Cinema antiplastique studio opening 2025!
Holiday Fair dec 2025
Mutual aid for Gaza fundraiser
film screenings
Glauber the Movie, Labyrinth of Brazil, 2005
on the importance of intuition in our more than human world, plants, animals, minerals and ecosystems experience innate instructions on all they need to survive and thrive. prior to centuries of harm to our bodies, natural habitats and nervous systems under industrialization, colonization, etc. humans all over the world also thrived within complex interspecies ecosystems using our intuitions and instincts to survive.
humans all over the world possessed embodied knowledge of abundance provided by the earth, and had intimate understanding of nature and natual elements. under capitalism and colonization, these forms of intuitive wisdom can seem almost impossible to access much less survive by, yet practices of free and self directed movement are one way to bring ourselves closer to hearing our inner guidance and reconnecting with energies from the earth and universe.
walter rodney wrote that by the age of six, bembe children possessed knowledge of hundreds of different kinds of plants.
rania lee khalildfa/ doctorate of fine arts, ma, lmsw, ba, artist
cinema antiplastique is born from twenty five years of rania’s embodied research within dance and video, community / family healing and postcolonial thought. her artistic research includes postcolonial and interspecies ecologies; third world feminism and african movements for independence (including the systematic dismantling of these movements by their former colonial masters). cinema antiplastique connects these embodied movement, therapeutic and theoretical backgrounds to bring them to the people.
phd: artistic research, dance, video, postcolonial ecologies, university of arts helsinki, finland
masters of arts: practice based research, performance, university of warwick, england
(transferred from performance studies ma, nyu)
masters of social work: hunter college school of social work, new york city
postgraduate studies: live clinical, diversity fellowship, ackerman insitute for the family, nyc
bachelors of arts: dance and video, hampshire college, amherst ma
simons rock early college of bard, great barrington, ma
teachers
(including, yet not limited to) atsushi takenouchi (butoh dance)
nancy stark smith (contact improvisation)
susan klein (klein technique, release technique)
daphne lowell (authentic movement, undergrad advisor)
josé esteban muñoz (performance studies, gradute advisor)
sippio small (systems and post structural family therapy, ackerman advisor)
laurie kaplan and david kezur (the above and narrative therapy, ackerman advisors)
richard foreman (experimental theatre and performance)
annette arlander (video, phd supervisor)
taru elving and ros gray (art, ecology and artistic research, phd supervisors)
professorships and teaching
new york university, bfa program, interdisciplinary visual arts (present)
parsons school of art and design, the new school, mfa program in visual art, nyc
medrar for video art, cairo, egypt (present)
university of arts helsinki, finland
rania has lived, taught and studied on the continents of africa, europe and turtle island (north america). she is the daughter of egyptian immigrants to the u.s., who returned to egypt, where rania lived between 2007-2016, spanning years of revolution and counter revolution. rania is the mother of one daughter. she lives with her family on stolen lenapehoking land, colonially known as brooklyn, new york city.
more information/ faq
all offerings
support our work
cinema antiplastique is an autonomous institution. our commitment to a free Palestine and more leads us to sustain our studio through ticket sales, commissions and community support. we will soon have a link here to make a tax deductable donation to our scholarship fund, sliding scale and community programming,
we appreciate you!