cinema antiplastique
cinema antiplastique is a unique movement practice and
movement studio by the same name, created by
rania lee khalil, located in the stolen lands
known as brooklyn, ny.
within our movement space
we share techniques
which assist in opening the innate capacity
for 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
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September 26
Friends, please welcome :
cinema antiplastique : movement for the movement
by Rania Lee Khalil
at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair! MoMA PS1
2 book signing events:
2p MoMA PS1 // 6 pm Cinema Antiplastique
2p book signing at L Nour Editions: MoMA PS1
6p book signing & intro to the participatory movement practice of cinema antiplastique
free
Join us for this collaboration with L Nour Editions press
in the Printed Matter Bookfair for the launch of
cinema antiplastique: movement for the movement
the first ten people from this list to arrive will get a free signed copy!
for those of you who still haven't experienced this movement work,
please join for a free participatory demo that day.
Sunday September 27th 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.
Tuesday evening Sept 29, 2026 7:30 pm
Fall Frequency FunRaiser info TBA!
Time TBA
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.
Thursday, November 5th. 6-9p
Gathering for bipoc healers
free
a space for healers 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 healers seeking to do things differently,
to acknowledge how challenging that can be in this world, how the politics of our times are impacting us, how we can shift and transform our energies to meet them, 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 gently see one other. Come as you are. We hope you'll leave feeling a little less alone in this work, and maybe with a new friend or two.
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
checkitcheckitcheckitcheckitcheckitcheckitcheckit
checkitcheckitcheckitcheckitcheckitcheckitcheckit
hot off the press hot off the press hot off the press
hot off the press hot off the press hot off the press
September 26
Friends, please welcome :
cinema antiplastique : movement for the movement
by Rania Lee Khalil
at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair! MoMA PS1
2 book signing events:
2p MoMA PS1 // 6 pm Cinema Antiplastique
2p book signing at L Nour Editions: MoMA PS1
6p book signing & intro to the participatory movement practice of cinema antiplastique
free
Join us for this collaboration with L Nour Editions press
in the Printed Matter Bookfair for the launch of
cinema antiplastique: movement for the movement
the first ten people from this list to arrive will get a free signed copy!
for those of you who still haven't experienced this movement work,
please join for a free participatory demo that day.
Sunday September 27th 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.
Tuesday evening Sept 29, 2026 7:30 pm
Fall Frequency FunRaiser info TBA!
Time TBA
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.
Thursday, November 5th. 6-9p
Gathering for bipoc healers
free
a space for healers 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 healers seeking to do things differently,
to acknowledge how challenging that can be in this world, how the politics of our times are impacting us, how we can shift and transform our energies to meet them, 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 gently see one other. Come as you are. We hope you'll leave feeling a little less alone in this work, and maybe with a new friend or two.
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
attachment parenting series
Attachment theory is the western psychological concept of a very basic premise in nature; that love, safety and care for our young is essential to their survival.
While much has been written and discussed on attachment theory in the west, attachment takes place primarily on physical and embodied levels. For this reason, cinema antiplastique presents our Attachment Parenting Series, designed to connect and reconnect parents and children with the embodied joys of the child parent connection.
From our upcoming writing:
Why attachment is anti-colonial
From our upcoming series:
Pregnant mothers dreaming
Motherhood holds the possibility of wonderful and astonishing experiences of the expanses within our physical bodies. Birthing is an ancient portal into both the unknown cosmos and our earth itself: manifested within our bodies and those of our babies. In this workshop for women 7 to 9 months pregnant, we explore natural techniques for child birthing from home to the hospital, not found in most books.
Preparing for birthing through creative exercises, breathing and physical movement, we make space within ourselves to expand into the transcendent experience of bringing a child into the world through our bodies.
Child Parent Partner Yoga
Sunday September 20th 10 am
Parent child partner yoga workshop
children ages 4 to 11
$150-250 sliding scale
Have you ever tried to quietly do yoga or stretch in your home only to have your kid(s) come running in and jumping all over you?
This workshop combines these two basic impulses with an eye physical attunement and connection with our children.
In this workshop for children ages 4 to 11 years old, we learn techniques from contact improvisation and simple, child friendly yoga, exploring weight sharing, counterbalance and delightful stretches which you can bring into your home and everyday routines.
One child per parent please.
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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.
we are not presently on social media, we find this aligned with
others of our antisocial positions ...
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