cinema antiplastique
cinema antiplastique is a new space
for movement and moving image
located in the stolen lands
known as brooklyn, ny.
we create site specific moving images,
events and experiences
which attune us
to the more subtle worlds around us
as a space for movement,
we share techniques
which assist in opening the innate capacity
for freeing intuitive movement within us all.
these skills are gentle and self directed
and done in parallel with our
original moving images of nature.
“the purpose of cinema antiplastique is
to bring us to the point where our bodies
and movements move
harmoniously, of their own nature
the purpose of cinema antiplastique’s video art
is to remind us that we are nature.
-rania lee khalil
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CINEMA ANTIPLASTIQUE CALENDAR
cinema antiplastique wishes you all
a wonderful 2026 summer of the fire horse!
we are on break from public events til september
yet still open for individual, couples & group movement
and space rentals
cinema antiplastique wishes you all
a wonderful 2026 summer of the fire horse!
we are on break from public events til september
yet still open for individual, couples & group movement
and space rentals
RECENT and PAST EVENTS
Palestine, Ecocide and Interspecies Liberation Symposium
Film Screening: LSD : Delirio di Sensei
Rent Party
Opening Like a Flower
Community Dabke!
Palestine, Ecocide and Interspecies Liberation Symposium
Film Screening: LSD : Delirio di Sensei
Rent Party
Opening Like a Flower
Community Dabke!
rania lee khalildfa/ doctorate of fine arts, ma, msw, ba, artist site
cinema antiplastique is the culmination of rania’s creative interdisciplinary practices within dance, video, post colonial ecology and community healing over the past twenty five years.
rania is the daughter of egyptian immigrants to the u.s. who returned to egypt, where she lived between 2007-2016, years of revolution and counter revolution. inspired by her studies of revolutions of the 1950’s - 1970’s (and their systematic dismantling), rania created cinema antiplastique to carry on the work of her ancestors creatively, resourcing communities and individuals with deep fun, thought and embodied healing. rania is the grandaughter of three generations of pan african-asian egyptian feminists, and the mother of one daughter,
education
(formal)
phd: artistic research. dance, video, postcolonial ecologies, university of arts helsinki, finland
masters of arts: practice based research in performance art, university of warwick, england
masters of social work: hunter college school of social work, new york city
(transferred from performance studies ma, nyu)
postgraduate studies: live clinical, diversity fellowship, ackerman insitute for the family, nyc
bachelors of arts: dance and video, hampshire college, amherst ma
simons rock 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)
past professorships
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
faq
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return all the land , reparations now
cinema antiplastique is located in stolen lands of the Lenapehoking, colonially known as the dumbo neighborhood of brooklyn, new york city. as we work collectively to address and repair these histories of crime against the earth and interspecies relations, we invite indigenous peoples of this land to reach out here re collaboration, land back efforts and events. looking forward to hearing from you.
on the points of embodiment, slowing down and healing,
it is very difficult to sustain the contradiction
support our work
cinema antiplastique is an autonomous institution. our commitment to a free Palestine, reparations and indigenous led resistance / earth liberation leads us to sustain our work through ticket sales, commissions and community support.
please click here to support our scholarship fund and community programming,
we appreciate you!