Animationsflm aus Ungarn
Delta Space Mission
Imagine an early Eighties Eastern European space-prog album high on sugary breakfast cereal, "Heavy Metal" magazine, Hanna-Barbera cartoons and 8-bit arcade games like Galaxian and Asteroids, and you have some idea of the otherworldly weirdness of the Romanian animated sci-fi film DELTA SPACE MISSION. In the year 3084, a Modigliani-esque alien journalist with blue-green skin, Alma, boards a state-of-the-art spacecraft named Delta – whose highly advanced computer brain develops a mad teenage crush on her with disastrous results. An incredibly strange and strangely beautiful work of galactic eye candy, DELTA SPACE MISSION defies all rules of perspective and logic, like M.C. Escher and Moebius teaming up on a Romanian Saturday morning cartoon. Fueled by an addictive Perry-Kingsley like electronic synth score by Calin Ioachimescu, DELTA SPACE MISSION grooves along folding space and time, an early Eighties Euro disco perched on the edge of a Black Hole. With its egg-shaped spaceships, giant floating triangles and anthropomorphic computer, the film also brings to mind Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, Rene Laloux's FANTASTIC PLANET and the work of the Strugatsky Brothers (STALKER).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 4K SCAN FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE by the Romanian Film Archive and CNC – Romanian Film Centre, with digital restoration by Craig Rogers of Deaf Crocodile Films
New interview with DELTA SPACE MISSION co-director Călin Cazan (40 min., in English)
Two newly restored episodes from the DELTA SPACE MISSION short film series: "Planeta Oceanelor / The Planet of the Oceans" (1980, 7 min.) and "Recuperare ratata / Failed Towing" (1981, 7 min.), both directed by Victor Antonescu
New commentary track by Kat Ellinger, author, film critic and editor-in-chief for Diabolique magazine
New booklet essay by comics artist, editor and publisher Stephen R. Bissette (Swamp Thing)
Reversible cover artwork
English SDH subtitles
REGION-A "LOCKED"
Delta Space Mission (1984)
The year is 3084, man settled interplanetary space, but space is still full of secrets - On a research mission to a newly discovered Galaxy heads the most advanced spaceship, Delta, operated by an extremely powerful electronic brain. Project Delta was conceived in order to establish a dialogue between intergalactic civilizations. Soon after an alien journalist, Alma, was allowed to board the spaceship, she and the captain noticed that the super-brain that controlled the ship could act by itself. No one, however, counts on the fact that this artificial super intelligence will want to explore the area of human emotions and feelings. Eventually, they realize that the journalist's beauty was the reason for the brain's odd behavior. She became its muse. The enamored machine becomes out of control and threatens all living things around them.
