Commune Image, a cinema workshop at 8 rue Godillot in Saint-Ouen, rents three spaces for professional events: a 150-seat screening room, a 220 m² reception room for 100 seated guests or 240 at a standing cocktail, and a 46 m² meeting room in a former shooting studio. It is reached by metro lines 13 and 14 at Mairie de Saint-Ouen.
Seminars and company events
The venue lists cocktail receptions, conferences, masterclasses, premieres and evening events running until 6 a.m. It says it has hosted a wide range of guests, from public figures to well-known artists and the teams of large brands.
The combination of a professional cinema and a large reception room allows a full format in one building: a conference or product film in the auditorium, followed by a cocktail or dinner next door. The meeting room, in a former shooting cyclorama with a ceiling five metres high and an industrial look, can be rented by the hour, the day or the week, and suits an offsite meeting or a production office. It opens directly onto the entrance hall and has a video projector.
Rooms and capacities
The auditorium has 150 seats, Dolby-certified 5.1 sound and a screen seven metres wide. The venue presents it for checking DCPs, mixes and colour grades and for technical screenings such as work copies and dailies, and it also serves for events.
The reception room covers 220 m². The restaurant space seats 100 and takes up to 240 for a standing cocktail dinner. Two small lounges with sofas, a bar and a reception area with vintage decor come with an evening booking.
The meeting room covers 46 m², and the site gives no seated capacity for it.
Catering
The reception room is described as a restaurant space with a bar. The official pages do not say whether catering is in-house or open to outside caterers, so ask the team through the privatisation contact.
History and setting
The building dates from 1919, covers 2,700 m² and has kept its red brick walls. It carries the Patrimoine d'Intérêt Régional label. The decor is vintage and muted, somewhere between a nineteenth-century literary salon, an arthouse cinema and a canteen, with furniture picked up here and there and hand-painted film posters. Commune Image was founded in 2010 and operates as a social enterprise of the SOS group, with a community of more than 100 creators and a post-production offer.
Getting there
The address is 8 rue Godillot, 93400 Saint-Ouen. By metro, take lines 13 or 14 to Mairie de Saint-Ouen, or line 4 to Porte de Clignancourt and then bus 255 to Cimetière Parisien. Bus 166 stops at Godillot, and two Vélib' stations are close.
