Conceiving Ada (1999)

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 comput...er 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? more

Directing:
  • Lynn Hershman Leeson
  • Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Writing:
  • Lynn Hershman-Leeson
  • Eileen Jones

Stars:
Release Date: 1999-02-19
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  • Country: CA, US
  • Language: English
  • Runtime: 85

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Karen Black
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Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary
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Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton
Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Francesca Faridany
Francesca Far...
Emmy Coer
David Brooks
David Brooks
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Mark Capri
Mark Capri
Dr. Locock
Michael Oosterom
Michael Ooste...
Lord Byron
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Lynn Hershman...
CD Rom (Voice)
Dawn Robinson
Dawn Robinson
Club Patron
Charles Pinion
Charles Pinio...
(uncredited)
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