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The Measure of Your Passage
199329 min 14 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Esther Valiquette
Production: Jacques ValléeJosée Beaudet
Script: Esther Valiquette
This film is a voyage into the self - and into time. When a young woman learns she is harbouring the AIDS virus, she feels compelled to reflect upon human existence. She travels back to the Bronze Age. As she wanders in the ruined sites of the ancient Minoans, she observes that their passage is still visible four thousand years later. Today the world is held hostage by a killer disease that is stealthier than a volcano, but it exacts the same price. Now, as then, some profound questions exist: How does humanity define itself? How do we measure our passage?
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Subject categories
- Sexuality and Reproduction > AIDSSexually Transmitted Diseases
- Health and Medicine > AIDSCoping with Illness and DyingWomen
- Women > Health and IllnessIdentity
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Human Condition
- Women - Portraits > Women in Crisis
- History > World History
Credits
- director
- Esther Valiquette
- script
- Esther Valiquette
- producer
- Jacques Vallée
- Josée Beaudet
- cinematography
- Martin Leclerc
- sound
- Théodore Vassilopoulos
- Yves Gendron
- editing
- René Roberge
- sound editing
- Esther Auger
- animation
- François Aubry
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- narrator
- Lynne Adams
- music
- Ginette Bellavance
- Daniel Toussaint
Awards
- Special Jury Mention - Section: Quebec CompetitionFestival du nouveau cinéma
- Genie Award for Best Short DocumentaryGenie Awards
- Normande-Juneau Prize - Category: Best Short Film awarded by l'Association québécoise des critiques de cinémaRendez-vous Québec Cinéma
- First Prize - with a cash prize of 250$ (tied with El Fatha)La Mondiale de films et vidéos réalisés par des femmes
- Clé d'Argent Award - Category: Professional International Festival Cine-video Psy