Autopathography as/of/with the Other in The Measure of Your Passage by Esther Valiquette

Abstract: This article analyzes Esther Valiquette's The Measure of Your Passage as a meditation on time lived and time remaining in the face of HIV. Through an autopathographic archive in absentia , Valiquette inscribes the self via voice, silence, and trace, staging a dialogue between "I" and "you," past and future. Moving from a Montréal hospital to the ruins of Santorini, the film links illness, accident, and archaeology to explore finitude and alterity through intersubjective encounter. Drawing on Derrida, Malabou, and Levinas, the article argues that Valiquette transforms private vulnerability into an ethical act of visibility, building transhistorical bridges that resist stigma and imagine collective futures.