The
new lighting, designed by Lightemotion and realized as a collaboration between
the Quartier des spectacles Partnership and the Cinémathèque québécoise, will
emphasize the presence of an important cultural actor on a cinema-oriented
block of the Quartier des spectacles.
Lightemotion
developed the concept of a space of light in motion, illuminating the building
in a metaphor for the moving images that make up a film, using a screen of
oscillating pixels and other components. The older, more classical, part of the
building gets a much more subtle treatment; beams of light pick out pilasters
from the darkness like performers in a spotlight. As at other neighbourhood
cultural venues, the luminous signature developed by light artist Axel
Morgenthaler -- the distinctive double line of red dots, now dynamic! -- makes
an appearance.