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
Friday, Sept 11th , 7pm
Listening Party “Africa Brazil” Jorge Ben, 1976
with film, Glauber Rocha, Labyrinth of Brazil, 2003, dir Silvio Tendler
$15
7 pm start time: film, 1 hour 38 minutes,
followed by short break and listening party , record: 41 minutes.
Friday, Sept 18 9pm
film screening: Swept Away (1974, Italy by Lina Wertmuller)
$15
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 10 am
Parent child partner yoga workshop
$150 - $250 sliding scale
The first event in our Attachment Parenting Series,
this workshop will provide basics for partnering with
your child for stretching, yoga and balancing with your
child.
Thurs September 24th 6-9 pm
gathering for bipoc therapists
free
a space for therapists of color to come together,
breathe, release, and resource ourselves for the work we do.
Ginhawa, a Filipino word for the ease and relief that returns
to the body after a weight lifts, captures what we hope this time
offers: a chance to meet as therapists seeking to do therapy differently,
to acknowledge how challenging that can be in this world,
and to hold and lift each other up in the process.
We'll share a meal, move and create together,
reflect through poetry and readings, and connect through conversation
designed to help us actually see each other. Come as you are.
We hope you'll leave feeling a little less alone in this work,
and maybe with a new friend.
Email michelle.k.snow@gmail.com or info@cinemantiplastique.org to RSVP.
September 25-27 10 am - 6 pm
MoMA PS1
cinema antiplastique at
Printed Matter Book Fair!
This september cinema antiplastique launches our
first book, Cinema Antiplastique: Movement for the Movement
with L Nour Editions press.
find us this weekend at Printed Matter Book Fair
along with cinema antiplastique posters and merch!
Tuesday evening Sept 29 9 pm EST / 6 pm PST
Shy Dance Party (online)
$30
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.
Saturday October 3, 1pm
Nature Walk for families with Eman Rashid!
$30 - $100 suggested donation
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 work towards Palestinian liberation.
From her village to US television newsrooms, to native plant
parks and gardens, Eman’s stories will delight and astonish.
Coming soon: 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 begins our work introduces his important signal
to new audiences.
fall 2026 is soon here! join us for a completely new
season of sensory movement and instinctual fun
Friday, Sept 11th , 7pm
Listening Party “Africa Brazil” Jorge Ben, 1976
with film, Glauber Rocha, Labyrinth of Brazil, 2003, dir Silvio Tendler
$15
7 pm start time: film, 1 hour 38 minutes,
followed by short break and listening party , record: 41 minutes.
Friday, Sept 18 9pm
film screening: Swept Away (1974, Italy by Lina Wertmuller)
$15
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 10 am
Parent child partner yoga workshop
$150 - $250 sliding scale
The first event in our Attachment Parenting Series,
this workshop will provide basics for partnering with
your child for stretching, yoga and balancing with your
child.
Thurs September 24th 6-9 pm
gathering for bipoc therapists
free
a space for therapists of color to come together,
breathe, release, and resource ourselves for the work we do.
Ginhawa, a Filipino word for the ease and relief that returns
to the body after a weight lifts, captures what we hope this time
offers: a chance to meet as therapists seeking to do therapy differently,
to acknowledge how challenging that can be in this world,
and to hold and lift each other up in the process.
We'll share a meal, move and create together,
reflect through poetry and readings, and connect through conversation
designed to help us actually see each other. Come as you are.
We hope you'll leave feeling a little less alone in this work,
and maybe with a new friend.
Email michelle.k.snow@gmail.com or info@cinemantiplastique.org to RSVP.
September 25-27 10 am - 6 pm
MoMA PS1
cinema antiplastique at
Printed Matter Book Fair!
This september cinema antiplastique launches our
first book, Cinema Antiplastique: Movement for the Movement
with L Nour Editions press.
find us this weekend at Printed Matter Book Fair
along with cinema antiplastique posters and merch!
Tuesday evening Sept 29 9 pm EST / 6 pm PST
Shy Dance Party (online)
$30
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.
Saturday October 3, 1pm
Nature Walk for families with Eman Rashid!
$30 - $100 suggested donation
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 work towards Palestinian liberation.
From her village to US television newsrooms, to native plant
parks and gardens, Eman’s stories will delight and astonish.
Coming soon: 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 begins our work introduces his important signal
to new audiences.
PAST EVENTS Spring 2026
Palestine, Ecocide and Interspecies Liberation Symposium
Haptic Cinema Series
Community Dabke!
Film Screening: LSD : Delirio di Sensei
Rent Party
Opening Like a Flower
Palestine, Ecocide and Interspecies Liberation Symposium
Haptic Cinema Series
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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