Film directed by Sarah Pucill in 1996. Performed by Jane Pucill and Kate Stephens.

Synopsis
Mirrored measure features two women separated by a generation. The older woman ceremoniously lays a table – she repeatedly spreads a cloth and smoothes it out. The table is set and glasses and jug filled with water. A balanced and controlled ritual follows in which the jug is passed round and water is repeatedly sipped. Water becomes the lens through which we see and the medium through which the protagonists connect. The sense of connectivity is abruptly severed when the first glass tumbles.

Funded by Arts Council.

Film notes
'The film presents a meditation on levels of balance, control and ritual enacted via a mesmeric attachment to the water level in table glassware. It explores the split between connection and disengagement.. This is expressed in different ways; the hands picking up or dropping the glass containers, the image in or out of focus, (...)
The film progresses from containment within table-top rituals to its slippage. (...) The camera maintains an umbilical relationship with the ever-present water level as it appears static in a jug which actually is moved around a table; only the water reflections appear moving. (...) A tension is built up via the glass echo on the soundtrack... A clear sense of identity boundary is broken, as the older and younger woman drinking interchange as if one person...