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cinema antiplastique
cinema antiplastique is a film / movement studio and practice where
participants move intuitively with our original moving images of nature.
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“Dance is not for dancers, dance is for man.“
Mary Starks Whitehouse, 1960
December movement and moving image workshops
Sunday, December 7 (in person) Opening Like a Flower 10 am - 1 pm
Opening Like a Flower 3 pm - 6 pm
Sunday, December 14 (online) Co - Regulating with Pets It’s the holidays, let’s co-regulate!
12 pm - 2 pm EST (online)
Sunday, December 21 (online)
Solstice with Bioluminescence 12 pm - 1 pm EST (online)
In this longest night of the year, we invite our community to this
1 hour moving meditation with bio luminescent plants and animals
to bring in the light
Sunday, December 28Shy dance party Get ready for New Years with our shy dance party!
12 pm - 2 pm EST (online)
upcoming movement and moving image workshops 2026
Palestinian and Swana Mother’s Circle January 18th, 2026 10 am - 1 pm
Attachment Parenting: Animal Kin
Celebrating Aging with Orcas
upcoming events at cinema antiplastique
Palestine and Ecocide Symposium January - May 2026
Algeria Festival February 2026
rent space with us!
today, intuitive wisdom can feel challenging for us as humans to access. practices of intuitive movement and (re)learning to silently follow the lines of movement within us, is one way to bring ourselves closer to the magic of (still) being alive.
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rania lee khalildfa/ doctorate of fine arts, ma, msw, ba, artist
cinema antiplastique is born from twenty five years of rania’s embodied practices in dance and video, family & community healing and postcolonial studies. rania’s artistic research includes 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 moving image, embodied movement and dance technique with healing and anticolonial theory.
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)
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)
professorships and teaching
new york university, bfa program, interdisciplinary visual arts
parsons school of art and design, the new school, mfa program in visual art, nyc
university of arts helsinki, finland
jesuit institute, alexandria, egypt
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 have long since returned to cairo, where rania lived between 2007-2016, across years of revolution and counter revolution.
rania is the mother of one daughter, dances and works in cinema antiplastique, brooklyn.
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land acknowledgment
cinema antiplastique is located in stolen lands of the Lenapehoking, colonially known as the dumbo neighborhood of brooklyn, new york city. as we collectively work to address and repair these histories of crime against earth 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.
book of the month
november 2025
“We argue that cultural criticism is particularly fruitful and a necessary ingredient to an emancipatory post-capitalist politics if it builds on these various international roots and does not appear as a one-sided bougeois critique of the ‘modern way of life’ that advocates manual labour, uncritically promotes a ‘return to community’, engages with common tropes of personal self-optimization and individuality in the face of mass culture, or fails to engage in a critique of social structures and political systems of power all togther.” p. 115
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support our work
cinema antiplastique is an autonomous institution. our commitment to a free Palestine, reparations and indigenous led environmental justice leads us to sustain our work directly through ticket sales, commissions and community support.
we will soon have a link here to make a donation to our scholarship fund, sliding scale and community programming,
we appreciate you!