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For a Relationship
4.5 minutes, video, 2007
In this visually beautiful and daring work, Verburg sorts through
2 years of photographs to make sense of the relationships in his
life. Sexual, romantic and familial ties blend together in this
intimate reflection on the artist’s relationship with his
practice, his lovers and his family.
- Jason St Laurent, Director of Programming, Inside Out
Jim Verburg’s For a Relationship is a diaristic and subjective
portrayal of ties with family, friends, and lovers. The piece focuses
on Verburg’s own life, summarized in quickly flashing photographic
stills of vacations taken, sexual exploits, tender exchanges, and
encounters with landscape. What emerges is a life lived according
to a system of values that the artist is eager to share. Verburg’s
monologue is directed at an unknown subject – perhaps a family
member or friend. His hopeful attempts at communication with
this individual are riddled with expectations and continually foiled.
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Mark Clintberg, Curator, Recovering Agnostic
AWARDS AND SCREENINGS
Nominated for the Iris Prize 2008, Cardiff Wales UK
Winner of the Colin Campbel Award for Best Canadian Short Film,
Juried Prize, 2008 Inside Out Film and Video Festival, Toronto Ontario
Mix 21, Experimental Film Festival, New York NY
Brussels Pink Screens Film Festival, Brussels Belgium
Queersicht, Film Festival, Bern Switzerland
The Mix Brasil Film and Video Festival of Sexual Diversity, São
Paulo Brazil
International Competition, Queer Lisboa 12 Film Festival, Lisbon
Portugal
Recovering Agnostic, Curated by Mark Clintberg, Faculty of Fine
Arts (FOFA) Gallery, Montreal Quebec
Make Out, Curated by Malin Arnell, Studio 44, Stockholm Sweden
Outfest, Los Angeles International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
Los Angeles CA
Frameline, San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, San Francisco
CA
Fully Flared Films, International Short Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
All The Reel Boys, NewFest 2008, New York LGBT Film Festival, New
York NY
Montreal mon amour, Curated by Jason St Laurent, Inside Out Film
and Video Festival, Toronto Ontario
Vtape Screening, Oberhausen, 54th International Short Film Festival,
Oberhausen, Germany
Verzaubert 17, Interationales Queer Filmfestival, Munich, Frankfurt,
Cologne and Berlin, Germany
Voice Over, Da Sodoma a Hollywood 23, Torino GLBT Film Festival,
Torino, Italy
Reelout 9, Queer Film and Video Festival, Kingston Ontario
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