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
fall 2026 is soon here! join us for a completely new
season of sensory movement and instinctual fun
August 27- Aug 30 2026 late evening to early morning Gentle Eclipse Chill Room
Visual - Sonic full weekend installation with
cinema antiplastique, Nora Croft and friends cinema antiplastique returns for in person events in late august 2026
with a multisensorial audio, visual and video chill room for you
to come relax, release and unwind in! gentle video, soundscapes and
tufted rugs bring healing pleasure in waves
Saturday Sept 12 7pmSwept Away (1974, Italy by Lina Wertmuller), film screening our Haptic Cinema Series returns this fall with
Swept Away, a seriously silly sexy tale of
love and lust across class and political difference
set on an Italian island with Mariangela Melato and
Giancarlo Giannini. You’ll be sure to leave a little
hotter than you came in.
Sunday September 20th 1pm
Moving Away from Phones experiential movement workshop While much is now being studied on the effect of
smart phones and social media on brain development,
cinema antiplastique asks about the effect of cell phone
addictions on embodied levels. What do cell phone addictions
mean for our posture, our ability to be present with others,
embodied in ourselves, in the present moment? Join us
as we feel together on how to move away from phones
and towards ourselves and all that’s important to us.
Tuesday evening Sept 22 9 pm EST / 6 pm PST
Shy Dance Party (online)
are you shy on the dance floor? worry you “don’t
know how to dance”?
good news! everyone can dance beautifully in
their very own way. in this synchronous online workshop,
we explore techniques to dance from within, in public
and private space. we rebuild confidence in our
joyful responses to music and others,
exploring the pleaure of our bodies moving in space,
from the privacy and comfort of our own homes.
we’ll also consider how various types of clothes,
fabrics and shoes make us feel and move on the dance floor,
so after this workshop we feel ready to set sail
for parties & the club
or simply feel wonderful having a healing dance party
alone in our room.
Thurs September 24th 6-9 pm
Bipoc therapist gatheringin this gathering for therapists of color, we ask:
what are we needing to resource ourselves in these times?
homemade food, arts and crafts, time and kindness with
understanding peers .
hosted by Michelle Snow and Rania Lee Khalil
September 25-27 MoMA PS1
cinema antiplastique at Printed Matter Book Fair! this september cinema antiplastique launches our
first book, a collection of essays called
cinema antiplastique: movement for the movement
with the badass and wonderful L Nour Editions press.
find us this weekend at Printed Matter Book Fair
along with cinema antiplastique posters and merch!
Saturday October 3, 1pmNature Walk for individuals & families with Eman Rashid! Join us for this nature walk in the native plant gardens
of Brooklyn Bridge Park with Palestinian activist and
plant expert Eman Rashid. Many of you know Eman without
knowing her from her beautiful yellow FREE PALESTINE
signs in the windows of thousands of Brooklyn homes!
On Sunday morning she graces us with a walk through
the park to learn about our pollinator relatives, interspersed
with fascinating stories about her courageous work
towards Palestinian liberation.
Fall 2026, Date TBA
Wilhelm Reich Festival
A peer of Sigmund Freud, ground breaking
pyschotherapist Wilhelm Reich pioneered
much of what today constitutes somatic therapy and
thought on sexual revolution. This fall, cinema antiplastique
introduces his work to new audiences.
summer (july - end of august)
cinema antiplastique wishes you all
a wonderful 2026 summer of the fire horse!
we are on break from public events til the end of august
yet open for individual sessions
and space rentals
fall 2026 is soon here! join us for a completely new
season of sensory movement and instinctual fun
August 27- Aug 30 2026 late evening to early morning Gentle Eclipse Chill Room
Visual - Sonic full weekend installation with
cinema antiplastique, Nora Croft and friends cinema antiplastique returns for in person events in late august 2026
with a multisensorial audio, visual and video chill room for you
to come relax, release and unwind in! gentle video, soundscapes and
tufted rugs bring healing pleasure in waves
Saturday Sept 12 7pmSwept Away (1974, Italy by Lina Wertmuller), film screening our Haptic Cinema Series returns this fall with
Swept Away, a seriously silly sexy tale of
love and lust across class and political difference
set on an Italian island with Mariangela Melato and
Giancarlo Giannini. You’ll be sure to leave a little
hotter than you came in.
Sunday September 20th 1pm
Moving Away from Phones experiential movement workshop While much is now being studied on the effect of
smart phones and social media on brain development,
cinema antiplastique asks about the effect of cell phone
addictions on embodied levels. What do cell phone addictions
mean for our posture, our ability to be present with others,
embodied in ourselves, in the present moment? Join us
as we feel together on how to move away from phones
and towards ourselves and all that’s important to us.
Tuesday evening Sept 22 9 pm EST / 6 pm PST
Shy Dance Party (online)
are you shy on the dance floor? worry you “don’t
know how to dance”?
good news! everyone can dance beautifully in
their very own way. in this synchronous online workshop,
we explore techniques to dance from within, in public
and private space. we rebuild confidence in our
joyful responses to music and others,
exploring the pleaure of our bodies moving in space,
from the privacy and comfort of our own homes.
we’ll also consider how various types of clothes,
fabrics and shoes make us feel and move on the dance floor,
so after this workshop we feel ready to set sail
for parties & the club
or simply feel wonderful having a healing dance party
alone in our room.
Thurs September 24th 6-9 pm
Bipoc therapist gatheringin this gathering for therapists of color, we ask:
what are we needing to resource ourselves in these times?
homemade food, arts and crafts, time and kindness with
understanding peers .
hosted by Michelle Snow and Rania Lee Khalil
September 25-27 MoMA PS1
cinema antiplastique at Printed Matter Book Fair! this september cinema antiplastique launches our
first book, a collection of essays called
cinema antiplastique: movement for the movement
with the badass and wonderful L Nour Editions press.
find us this weekend at Printed Matter Book Fair
along with cinema antiplastique posters and merch!
Saturday October 3, 1pmNature Walk for individuals & families with Eman Rashid! Join us for this nature walk in the native plant gardens
of Brooklyn Bridge Park with Palestinian activist and
plant expert Eman Rashid. Many of you know Eman without
knowing her from her beautiful yellow FREE PALESTINE
signs in the windows of thousands of Brooklyn homes!
On Sunday morning she graces us with a walk through
the park to learn about our pollinator relatives, interspersed
with fascinating stories about her courageous work
towards Palestinian liberation.
Fall 2026, Date TBA
Wilhelm Reich Festival
A peer of Sigmund Freud, ground breaking
pyschotherapist Wilhelm Reich pioneered
much of what today constitutes somatic therapy and
thought on sexual revolution. This fall, cinema antiplastique
introduces his work to new audiences.
summer (july - end of august)
cinema antiplastique wishes you all
a wonderful 2026 summer of the fire horse!
we are on break from public events til the end of august
yet open for individual sessions
and space rentals
RECENT and PAST EVENTS
Palestine, Ecocide and Interspecies Liberation Symposium
Community Dabke!
Film Screening: LSD : Delirio di Sensei
Rent Party
Opening Like a Flower
Palestine, Ecocide and Interspecies Liberation Symposium
Community Dabke!
Film Screening: LSD : Delirio di Sensei
Rent Party
Opening Like a Flower
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
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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
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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.
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we appreciate you!