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4.25 × 6.87 IN / 10.8 × 17.4 CM
40 pages
Perfect binding, Text in English
ISBN 979-8-9954405-6-7
Edition of 125
cinema antiplastique: movement for the movement is the first book by Egyptian American dancer, video artist, therapist, and writer Rania Lee Khalil. Bringing together seven texts originally written for the Cinema Antiplastique newsletter in 2026, the book moves between poetry, personal reflection, political critique, and writing on movement, music, collective gathering, and healing.
Khalil begins with the body as a source of knowledge. She writes about instinct and muscle memory, driving a manual car, listening to records together, the history of rent parties, and the signals we send into the world. Across these writings, she considers how bodies are shaped by technology, capitalism, colonialism, and political violence—and how movement, rest, pleasure, music, and collective presence can help us resist those forces.
Rooted in memories of Egypt and New York, and in the unfinished liberation movements of the 1960s and ’70s, movement for the movement asks what is necessary to sustain political struggle over time. Khalil argues that movements need more than urgency and resistance: they also need tenderness, imagination, laughter, mourning, dance, and time for the body to recover.
About the Author
Rania Lee Khalil is a dancer, video artist, therapist, and the founder of Cinema Antiplastique, a movement practice and studio in Brooklyn, New York. Her interdisciplinary work brings together movement, moving images, postcolonial ecology, and community healing. She is the daughter of Egyptian immigrants and lived in Egypt from 2007 to 2016, during years of revolution and counterrevolution. cinema antiplastique: movement for the movement is her first book.
4.25 × 6.87 IN / 10.8 × 17.4 CM
40 pages
Perfect binding, Text in English
ISBN 979-8-9954405-6-7
Edition of 125
cinema antiplastique: movement for the movement is the first book by Egyptian American dancer, video artist, therapist, and writer Rania Lee Khalil. Bringing together seven texts originally written for the Cinema Antiplastique newsletter in 2026, the book moves between poetry, personal reflection, political critique, and writing on movement, music, collective gathering, and healing.
Khalil begins with the body as a source of knowledge. She writes about instinct and muscle memory, driving a manual car, listening to records together, the history of rent parties, and the signals we send into the world. Across these writings, she considers how bodies are shaped by technology, capitalism, colonialism, and political violence—and how movement, rest, pleasure, music, and collective presence can help us resist those forces.
Rooted in memories of Egypt and New York, and in the unfinished liberation movements of the 1960s and ’70s, movement for the movement asks what is necessary to sustain political struggle over time. Khalil argues that movements need more than urgency and resistance: they also need tenderness, imagination, laughter, mourning, dance, and time for the body to recover.
About the Author
Rania Lee Khalil is a dancer, video artist, therapist, and the founder of Cinema Antiplastique, a movement practice and studio in Brooklyn, New York. Her interdisciplinary work brings together movement, moving images, postcolonial ecology, and community healing. She is the daughter of Egyptian immigrants and lived in Egypt from 2007 to 2016, during years of revolution and counterrevolution. cinema antiplastique: movement for the movement is her first book.