Conceiving Ada (1999)
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?
Release Date: 1999-02-19
Runtime: 85 minutes
Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Top Cast
- Tilda Swinton as Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
- Francesca Faridany as Emmy Coer
- Timothy Leary as Sims
- Karen Black as Lady Byron / Mother Coer
- John Perry Barlow as John Crosse
- John O'Keefe as Charles Babbage
- J.D. Wolfe as Nicholas Clayton
- Owen Murphy as William Lovelace
- David Brooks as Children's Tutor
- Esther Mulligan as Mary Shelley
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Original Music Composer(s): N/A
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