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cinema antiplastique 
cinema antiplastique is a space 
for movement and moving image
located in the stolen lands 
known as brooklyn, ny.  

we share spaces and techniques 
which assist in opening the innate capacity 
for intuitive movement within us all.  

gentle and self directed 
and done in parallel with our
original moving images of nature. 

“the purpose of the movement practice of cinema antiplastique is
to bring us to the point where our bodies harmoniously
move 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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rania lee khalil & the invention of cinema antiplastique
rania lee khalildfa/ doctorate of fine arts, ma, msw, ba, artist

cinema antiplastique is the culmination of twenty five years years of rania’s creative interdisciplinary practices within dance, video, post colonial ecology and community healing, as well as the result of her personal experiences as a diasporic egyptian / swana woman within various countries, contexts and cultures.

rania is the daughter of egyptian immigrants to the u.s., who long ago returned to egypt, where she lived between the years 2007-2016.  rania is the mother of one daughter, and the grandaughter of three generations of egyptian pan african-asian feminists.  inspired by her studies of the systematic dismantling of revolutions in the 1960’s and 70’s, rania created cinema antiplastique to carry on the work of her ancestors through embodied art and healing practices which resource communities and the individuals within them.
it is not always for everyone to heal through talking.  me, i have places that talking can’t touch.  so i offer this space and this practice of cine movement to offer healing experiences that take place through our bodies.  

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

for the bodies, hearts and nervous systems of all students and faculties working within complicit scholasticidal institutions at this time :  let’s find different ways.  

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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land acknowledgment 
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.   























































 
 


  intro to intuitive movement workshop at cinema antiplastique
regarding social media: 
on the points of embodiment, slowing down and healing, 
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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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