understand the importance of this type of material in the history of Canadian television and in the civic imagination of the city itself." Cinema scholar Sol Nagler writes of the video: "It is a media-collage tour de force, an overture that reveals its political purpose: uncovering the roots of Winnipeg’s distinct society by sifting through the ruins of its discarded visual history. Death by Popcorn is an allegorical study that reconsiders a tenuous time in Winnipeg’s history. The city had just lost its precious National Hockey League team, the Jets, and, consequently, was on the brink of a third mass uprising." "Stand Tall" Graffiti and Burton's Favourite (2006) Enamored by local boosterism and propaganda campaigns, l'Atelier was also recognized for its wheatpaste posters and spray-paint stencils which often littered the downtown core area. In 2005, the Winnipeg Free Press reported that "the vandalism is inspiring head-scratching by city officials about the motives of the project." Bob McDonald, a spokesman for Winnipeg's public works department said in an official statement: "It's certainly not something we want posted around the city." In February 2008, Atelier-commissioned art films I Dream of Driftwood (2006) and Burton's Favorite (2006) were featured in the Winnipeg Art Gallery exhibition, Subconscious City. As the Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema recounts in detail, “In the years of L’Atelier, the group postered the city with images of Burton Cummings captioned with the title of his most successful solo hit, “Stand Tall.” The posters appeared without context of explanation throughout Winnipeg in 2005, and seemed an obscure injunction to the populace to take pride in the city. Yet, in contrast to official promotional campaigns that appealed to the sublimity of the Manitoba landscape or assertions of Winnipeg’s modernity to attract visitors, investment, or to simply make Winnipeggers feel good about themselves, the “Stand Tall” campaign embraced the somewhat embarrassing: an overwrought mid seventies soft rock hit and the beaming, goofy image of the man who wrote and sang it. […] The visual impact of the “Stand Tall” posters is captured in Burton’s Favourite (2006), a L’Atelier-produced short directed by Walter Forsberg and soundtracked by the song itself.” Other Projects In January 2008, the University of Manitoba's ARCH-2 Gallery installed Discount Everything, an exhibition featuring artwork and photographs by l'Atelier national du Manitoba and Winnipeg documentarian John Paskievich. In 2008, l'Atelier publicly denounced the City of Winnipeg's downtown development office, Centre Venture,