Excentris was a
performing arts center and
cinema located on
Saint-Laurent Boulevard in
Montreal,
Quebec. The complex was conceived by
Daniel Langlois as a laboratory for
digital media
Digital media is any communication media that operate in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital media can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronics device. ' ...
production as well as a screening venue. It was opened in June 1999, after two years of construction at a cost of CA$6.2 million,
and covered .
Excentris ran into financial difficulty in 2009 and was forced to shut down two of its three cinemas. It was revived as a three-screen complex in 2011, with the help of a $4 million loan from Quebec provincial film funding agency
SODEC, $2.75 million from the City of Montreal, and $1 million from the Daniel Langlois Foundation.
The centre closed its doors in November 2015, citing financial difficulties. Cinéma Parallèle, the non-profit organization that ran the center, entered bankruptcy protection in May 2015.
In 2018 the building was sold to for CA$1.6 million.
References
External links
Excentris website
Performing arts centres in Canada
Music venues in Montreal
Theatres in Montreal
Event venues established in 2009
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal
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