1. cinema antiplastique?
Cinema Antiplastique is a practice invented by and sourced from Rania Lee Khalil’s long term movement and video practice, as well her degrees and training in healing. Talk therapy is one way to attend to imbalances, anxiety or feelings of “being stuck”, yet it is not the only way, and it is not for everyone. Memories, joy and solutions to long held problems are lodged within our bodies (in addition to our minds) and moving can help to release them! Doing so results in experiences of healing, greater inspiration and creativity.
2. why move with moving images?
modern life has isolated us from the care and healing that nature provides. nature offers a wordless sense of belonging to something greater than ourselves, magic and creativity. for bipoc people in new york city and beyond, the problem can run deeper still: our communities are often systematically denied access to nature, and/ or made to feel unsafe when there. cinema antiplastique is designed to offer the healing of nature through moving images: videos kinesthetically designed for us to slow down, feel safe and attuned with.
4 are cinema antiplastique’s workshop for fun or for healing?
the answer to this is : a bit of both. at cinema antiplastique we believe that healing is not a form of work, in the way that it is often framed by weekly therapy paradigms. similarly, we do see dance and movement as escapist activities, yet rather a means to connect with our bodies as a route to personal and community expansion, as well as to memories, solutions and more.
thus we see both healing and fun as joyful, playful, wholesome and embodied.
another belief is that the disconnection between fun and healing is colonially imposed. part of our collective decolonization is the understanding that human beings have as much capacity to repress joy and happiness as we have to repress grief and sorrow, and that embodied movement is a means through which joyful embodied feelings can be accessed.
5. are these workshops part of medicine ceremonies or for folks using drugs?
on the contrary - we ask that everyone who comes to our movement workshops please be alchohol and drug free (unless prescribed by a doctor) from the morning the workshop begins (24 hours is preferable). we request this so that participants can best listen to and attune to their inner selves and others in the room.
being drug and alchohol free for some hours best ensures that participants can hear themselves and access their inner information with clarity. we also ask this because we need everyone in our workshops to be self possessed for the physical and emotional safety of others in the room.
please understand that this request does not come from a moral place! we have deep respect for plant medicine and other drugs for the ways in which they allow humans to regulate, open and access positive and expansive feelings. this is just a specific for our public workshops.
6. is there music at these movement workshops in cinema antiplastique?
unless otherwise noted, our workshops are silent so that we can hear the sounds, songs, beats, rythms and vibrations within ourselves. we can hear the sound of our hearts beating, sounds of our joints or breath. these are all parts of experiences of quietness and embodied attunment with ourselves, that can be harder to access in the hustle of everyday life or outside of this container / workshop format.
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