Conceiving Ada
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1999 · 85 min · NR · Science Fiction · Drama · Fantasy · TMDB 4.7/10
Overview
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?
Directed by Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Cast
- Tilda Swinton — Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
- Francesca Faridany — Emmy Coer
- Timothy Leary — Sims
- Karen Black — Lady Byron / Mother Coer
- John Perry Barlow — John Crosse