Delta space mission / directed by Călin Cazan, Mircea Toia, and Victor Antonescu.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Cazan, Călin, director.

Toia, Mircea, writer, director.

Antonescu, Victor, writer, director.

Language:

Romanian

Subjects (All):

Animated films.

Children's films.

Science fiction films.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (70 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (1 volume : illustrations ; 15 cm)

4 3/4 in.

stamping.

Distribution:

Los Angeles, California : Deaf Crocodile, 2022

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1984

Language Note:

In Romanian with English subtitles.

System Details:

digital

optical

mono

DTS-HD Master Audio

24 fps

NTSC

video file

Blu-Ray

region A

Summary:

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).

Credits:

Directors, Călin Cazan, Mircea Toia, and Victor Antonescu; writers, Mircea Toia, and Victor Antonescu.

Notes:

Extras include: 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).

OCLC:

1445749182

Publisher Number:

814456024363

DC-002 Deaf Crocodile