June 2 – 20, 2026
Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 4th floor, 401 Richmond St. West

Open late for the imagineNATIVE Art Crawl on June 6th, including the festival’s Closing Reception!

Running, by Zachery Longboy (2022, 3:46)

In Zachery Cameron Longboy’s quietly powerful recent work Running, a spoken “poem for my captor” accompanies Longboy’s exquisite, minimally animated line drawings. Seeming to emerge from a liminal state somewhere between dream and memory, Running draws us fully into the image-world that was introduced in the joyous video Guardian of Sleep (2022). This video will be running continuously in the Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space during the imaginNATIVE Festival and continuing until June 20th.

The dream is filled with dance and song lasting into the late
She’s alive, he’s alive, there alive, I’m alive
I’m alive she’s alive he’s alive, we’re alive

Running, running trees go by…

– Zachery Cameron Longboy

Zachery Cameron Longboy is a Sayisi Dene visual, video, and performance artist from Churchill, Manitoba. His works explore a fractured cultural experience. Longboy’s video work is held in collections including the Glenbow Museum (Calgary), Canada Council Art Bank (Ottawa), and Canadian Trade Office (Taiwan); screening venues include the Museum of Modern Art (New York), National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), TIFF Cinematheque (Toronto), and Vancouver Art Gallery.

Co-presented by imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival