In collaboration, and individually under the l'Atelier rubric, the project's members created an array of short and feature-length films, videos, posters, curatorial showcases and essays.
[2] University of Winnipeg scholar Andrew Burke describes the group, thus: "Unlike John Paizs’s fascination with the 1950s, or Guy Maddin’s attachment to the 1920s, L’Atelier was drawn to the detritus of the more recent past—the space stretching from the 1970s and 1990s mediated by video, local affiliates, and public access cable broadcasting.
[9] The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema describes Kubasa in a Glass as, "distinguished by the way in which the accumulation and juxtaposition of found materials is not a simple exercise in civic nostalgia, but rather a thorough investigation of how the structure of feeling of a just-passed historical moment might be visible in its remnants and remainders.
[12] In the summer of 2007, l'Atelier presented Beefs and Bouquets, a series of short programs of new films by friends and associated filmmakers such as Deco Dawson, Victoria Prince, Darryl Nepinak, Daniel Gerson and Eve Majzels, at the Winnipeg Cinematheque.
"[19] The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema describes the video as, "a mostly found-footage film that examines the deep emotional investment the city had with its National Hockey League franchise and explores the collective civic trauma that came as a consequence of the Jets' departure from Winnipeg in 1996.
"[20] Writing in 2019, Cultural Studies scholar Andrew Burke states that, "Death by Popcorn in particular and the work of L'Atelier more generally use format historicity and medium specificity to demarcate, investigate, and, to a certain degree, celebrate the video era.
"[21] 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.
"[28] 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.