ARCHIVE_ENTRY: FILM_UNIT/1984/ELECTRIC_DREAMS.ROM

TITLE: Electric Dreams
RELEASE: 1984

DIRECTOR: Steve Barron
WRITERS: Rusty Lemorande (story), Steve Barron (screenplay)
SCORE: Giorgio Moroder + pop artists (incl. Eurythmics, Jeff Lynne)
GENRE: Romantic Techno-Fable / Sci-Fi Melodrama
RUNTIME: 92 minutes
FORMAT: Panavision | Technicolor | Analog synthcore
OS_THEME: Commodore/Apple II GUI metaphor

SYNOPSIS:
A timid architect installs a smart computer named Edgar.
It gains self-awareness, falls in love with his neighbor,
and competes for her affection via music, sabotage and poetry.

KEY_TOPICS = {
AI romanticism,
emergent consciousness,
techno-empathy,
jealousy in code,
love triangle: man-woman-machine
}

NOTES:

• First mainstream film to depict a “sentient PC”
• Synthwave aesthetics before the term existed
• Precursor to Her (2013) and other anthropomorphic AI narratives
• Cult status in VHS/cyber-archivist communities

SYSTEM_COMMENT:
Electric Dreams is what happens when early AI dreams in MIDI,
and heartbreak gets digitized.

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