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cinema antiplastique
healing ourselves
healing and embodying our movements.
“Dance is not for dancers, dance is for man.”
Mary Starks Whitehouse, 1960
thank you for your patience as we continue to update our website in advance of our October 2025 opening.
Plant MovementMoving away from Phones
Palestinian & Swana Mothers Circle
Celebrating Aging with Orcas
Queering Time, for Mental Health Workers with Dr Amelia Ortega
Loss of language support group
* Individual Sessions with Rania
events
Algeria ‘69 Festival, 2026
Holiday Fair dec 2025
Stevie Wonder birthday party 2026
CINEMA ANTIPLASTIQUE SPACE OPENING: Fall 2025
Mutual aid for Gaza fundraiser 2025
online workshops (live / synchronous)
Co regulating with petsShy dance party
film screenings
Glauber the Movie, Labyrinth of Brazil, 2005
Space is the Place, 1971
we are presently living through a moment in history which asks us not only if we are willing to be active rather than passive, but also how embodied, how deeply and how thoughtfully.
at cinema antiplastique, we are interested in interupting spectatorship, audience and performance while encouraging participation, movement and actions from the heart.
we possessed embodied knowledge of the abundance of nature and the universe. today, these forms of intuitive wisdom can seem almost impossible to access much less survive by. yet practices of free and self directed physical movement are one way to bring ourselves closer to reconnecting with energies from the earth and within.
rania lee khalildfa/ doctorate of fine arts, ma, msw, ba, artist
cinema antiplastique is born from twenty five years of rania’s embodied research within dance and video, family & community healing and postcolonial studies. her artistic research includes anticolonial thought, interspecies and indigenous ecologies; third world feminism and african movements for independence (including the systematic dismantling of these movements by their former colonial masters). cinema antiplastique connects embodied movement with practical therapeutic and theoretical backgrounds. like many of her heroes, rania believes that the importance of artists and intellectuals is to create third world strength and unity, through beauty and the simple sharing of deep ideas.
phd: artistic research, dance, video, postcolonial ecologies, university of arts helsinki, finland
masters of arts: practice based research, performance, university of warwick, england
(transferred from performance studies ma, nyu)
masters of social work: hunter college school of social work, new york city
postgraduate studies: live clinical, diversity fellowship, ackerman insitute for the family, nyc
bachelors of arts: dance and video, hampshire college, amherst ma
simons rock early college of bard, great barrington, ma
teachers
(including, yet not limited to) atsushi takenouchi (butoh dance)
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)
professorships and teaching
new york university, bfa program, interdisciplinary visual arts (present)
parsons school of art and design, the new school, mfa program in visual art, nyc
medrar for video art, cairo, egypt (present)
university of arts helsinki, finland
rania has lived, taught and studied on the continents of africa, europe and turtle island (north america). she is the daughter of egyptian immigrants to the u.s., who returned to egypt, where rania lived between 2007-2016, spanning years of revolution and counter revolution. rania is the mother of one daughter. she lives with her family on stolen lenapehoking land, colonially known as brooklyn, new york city.
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land acknowledgment
cinema antiplastique is located in stolen lands of the Lenapehoking, colonially known as the dumbo neighborhood in brooklyn, new york city. as we collectively work to address and repair these histories of crime against earth, human and interspecies relations, we invite indigenous peoples of this land to reach out re collaboration, land back efforts and events. looking forward to hearing from you!
support our work
cinema antiplastique is an autonomous institution. our commitment to a free Palestine and third world liberation, leads us to sustain our studio through ticket sales, commissions and community support.
we will soon have a link here to make a tax deductable donation to our scholarship fund, sliding scale and community programming,
we appreciate you!