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Conceiving Ada

1999·Directed by Lynn Hershman-Leeson

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Released
February 19, 1999
Runtime
1h 25m

About Conceiving Ada

  • Science Fiction
  • Drama
  • Fantasy

Synopsis

Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?

Director
  • Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Writers
  • Lynn Hershman-Leeson
  • EJEileen Jones

Principal cast

In billing order
  • Tilda SwintonAda Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
  • Francesca FaridanyEmmy Coer
  • Timothy LearySims
  • Karen BlackLady Byron / Mother Coer
  • JPJohn Perry BarlowJohn Crosse
  • JOJohn O'KeefeCharles Babbage
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