space//space

Dubbed "Waiting for Godot in Space" by the New York Times' Jason Zinoman, the 2012 theatrical production of Space//Space serves as a launchpad for this cinematic reiteration. Galvanized by the pressure-cooker of a year in Covid-lockdown, Jelliffe and Craig have reprised their production-a claustrophobic container tale of two brothers stuck in a space capsule-in the empty theatre of their attic. Doubling down on containment and existential dread, Banana Bag and Bodice unleashes a nesting doll of narratives. A video-document within a play, within daily life, within a film, within a pandemic, Space//Space is an outlandish and poignant look at the function of performance (both intended and unintended), spectatorship (again, both intended and unintended), and artistic legacy. Wrapped in layers of isolation, relationships both real and fictional are pressed and amplified. As the play-conceit begins to degrade, Space//Space reveals a married couple attempting to co-exist as a family and as artists grappling over the purpose and preservation of their labor.