Conceiving Ada

Conceiving Ada 1999

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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?

  • Released: 1999-02-19
  • Runtime: 85 minutes
  • Genre: Science Fiction, Drama, Fantasy
  • Stars: Tilda Swinton, Francesca Faridany, Timothy Leary, Karen Black, John Perry Barlow, Mark Capri, R.U. Sirius, Michael Oosterom, John O'Keefe, David Brooks
  • Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson