Atelier national du Manitoba

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L'Atelier national du Manitoba is a filmmaking and art collective based in Winnipeg, Canada. Founded in February 2005, the club's artistic output often focuses on the history, culture and ephemera of Winnipeg and Manitoba, in general.

On August 26-28, 2005, l'Atelier collaborated with Winnipeg artist Daniel Barrow on the screening series, Garbage Hill: A Showcase of Discarded Winnipeg Film and TV, held at the Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque. The series was a compedium of former cable access television shows from VPW and Cablevision, locally-produced television commercials and under appreciated films from thirty years of Manitoba filmmaking. Barrow presented clips from cable TV shows, such as dance free-for-all The Pollock and Pollock Gossip Show, reparatory musical performance show The Cosmopolitans, and the white Persian cat fan club TV-newsletter What's New Pussycat, among others, with his signature overhead projector providing scrolling historical background on each show. L'Atelier national du Manitoba presented the history of locally-produced, low-budget TV commercials in the feature-length video Kubasa in a Glass: the Fetishised Winnipeg TV Commercial 1976-1992.

In December 2005, l'Atelier national du Manitoba presented their new video-collage Death by Popcorn: the Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets at the Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque for three screenings.