Sun October 17, 2021 7:00 PM DELTA SPACE MISSION $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | Pre-recorded virtual Q&A with filmmaker Calin Cazan, moderated by Dennis Bartok
ABOUT THE FILM 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. With its egg-shaped spaceships, giant floating triangles and anthropomorphic computer, the film brings to mind Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, Rene Laloux’s FANTASTIC PLANET and the work of the Strugatsky Brothers (STALKER). Long unavailable, the film has recently been scanned in 4K from the camera negative by the Romanian Film Archive and Romanian Film Centre (CNC) for its first-ever U.S. release by Deaf Crocodile. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Deaf Crocodile