for their alleged plans to raze historically significant portions of the city's Chinatown district. Legacy L'Atelier's core members - Matthew Rankin, Mike Maryniuk and Walter Forsberg - continue to work together periodically under their individual names. Writing in 2007, Winnipeg Film Group Director Cecilia Araneda stated: "Back to the Atelier and its idolatry of kitsch and the young, subversively-charged filmmakers within the Film Group; while it is easy to criticize them for being opinionated and boastful, and for not walking softly, I actually applaud this in them. The Film Group was formed from the sheer strength of our collective individualism and it survives to this day only because of this, when external factors should have already rendered us extinct." At a 2009 screening, Winnipeg Film Group Executive Director Cecilia Araneda publicly stated, "all of Winnipeg's marginalized film and video artists owe L'Atelier national du Manitoba an enormous debt of gratitude for their contribution to, and recognition of, what society has otherwise deemed as trash." In 2014, Atelier member Walter Forsberg published a scrapbook history of the group, STARVATION YEARS: L'Album de l'Atelier national du Manitoba, 2005-2008. L'Atelier members are featured in the 2017 documentary, Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group by filmmakers Dave Barber and Kevin Nikkel. References External links "Winnipeg eats itself: L'Atelier national du Manitoba's Scheme for Sovereignty," by Solomon Nagler, INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media and Radical Aesthetics, 2009. "A conversation with film maker Matthew Rankin," by Todd Brown, Twitch, April 15, 2009. "L'Atelier national du Manitoba réalise des projets d'art sur l'identité manitobaine," Radio-Canada.ca, December 7, 2005. "Fear and Self-Loathing in Manitoba," by Paul Corupe, This Magazine, 2005. "Don't Mess With Chinatown," by L'Atelier national du Manitoba, Uptown Magazine, July 31, 2008. "One to Watch, Indeed: An Interview with Ryan McKenna," by Walter Forsberg, Uptown Magazine, April 3, 2008. "Winnipeg Kitsch," by Stacey Abramson, Uptown Magazine, January 31, 2008. STARVATION YEARS: L'Album de l'Atelier national du Manitoba, 2005-2008. Death by Popcorn: The Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets (2005) on UBU Film The Horizontalist Manifesto/les horizontalistes: manifeste, by/par l'Atelier national du Mantioba, 2005. Canadian artist groups and collectives Culture of Winnipeg Cinema of Manitoba Film organizations in Canada