cinema antiplastique is a film and movement studio where
participants move intuitively with our original moving images
of nature.
our practice brings techniques from dance and art to the people
for embodiment, creative expansion and healing.
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DECEMBER, 2025
3 pm - 6 pm full !
Our Relatives, Flowers
opening movement with flowers opening
Sunday, December 21
1 pm - 2 pm EST
Solstice with Bioluminescence (online)
1 hour moving meditation with bio luminescent plants and marine life to bring in the light
Sunday, December 28
12 pm - 2 pm EST Shy Dance Party (online)
Get ready for New Years with our shy dance party!
JANUARY 2026 and ONWARD
Sunday, 1.25.26 10 am - 1 pm EST
Palestinian and Swana Mother’s Circle
Co Regulating with Pets (online)
Celebrating Aging with Orcas
Algeria Festival
ALL OFFERINGS please see calendar for our present offerings
in person movement workshops
Our Relatives, Flowers
Celebrating Aging with Orcas
Between Plant and Animal
Palestinian and Swana Mother’s Circle
Loss of Language Lab
live / synchronous online workshops
Solstice with Bioluminescence (online)
Shy Dance Party (online)
Co Regulating with Pets (online)
ts and marine life to bring in the
in person events
Algeria Festival
+ movies and much more in 2026!
in the face of constant struggle, intuititon can feel challenging to access. practices of intuitive movement and (re)learning to follow the silent lines of movement within us, is one way to bring ourselves closer to ourselves.
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rania lee khalildfa/ doctorate of fine arts, ma, msw, ba, artist
cinema antiplastique is born from over thirty years of rania’s embodied practices in dance and video, family & community healing and postcolonial studies.
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)
susan waltner (experiential anatomy)
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 (selected)
new york university, bfa program, interdisciplinary visual arts
parsons school of art and design, the new school, mfa program in visual art
university of arts helsinki, finland
jesuit institute, alexandria, egypt
rania has lived, learned, taught and studied in egypt, finland, england and turtle island (north america). she is the daughter of egyptian immigrants to the u.s. who returned have long since returned to egypt, where rania lived between the years 2007-2016. she is a mother of one daughter, she lives, dances and works in cinema antiplastique, and the land presentlly known as brooklyn, new york.
rania’s doctoral artistic research and beyond includes interspecies and indigenous ecologies, third world feminism and african movements for independence, with an eye on the systematic dismantling of these movements by their former colonial masters.
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land acknowledgment
cinema antiplastique is located in stolen lands of the Lenapehoking, colonially known as the dumbo neighborhood of brooklyn, new york city. as we collectively work to address and repair these histories of crime against earth and interspecies relations, we invite indigenous peoples of this land to please reach out here re collaboration, land back efforts and events. looking forward to hearing from you.
book of the month
“We argue that cultural criticism is particularly fruitful and a necessary ingredient to an emancipatory post-capitalist politics if it builds on these various international roots and does not appear as a one-sided bougeois critique of the ‘modern way of life’ that advocates manual labour, uncritically promotes a ‘return to community’, engages with common tropes of personal self-optimization and individuality in the face of mass culture, or fails to engage in a critique of social structures and political systems of power all togther.” p. 115
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support our work
cinema antiplastique is an autonomous institution. our commitment to a free Palestine, reparations and indigenous led earth liberation leads us to sustain our work through our embodied networks: ticket sales for in person events, commissions and community support.
please click here to support our scholarship fund and community programming,
we appreciate you!