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Conceiving Ada (1999)
Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson
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?
Rated NR | Length 85 minutes
Actors
Tilda Swinton | Francesca Faridany | Timothy Leary | Karen Black | John Perry Barlow | John O'Keefe | J.D. Wolfe | Owen Murphy | David Brooks | Esther Mulligan | Ellen Sebastian | Mark Capri | Joe Wemple | Chris von Sneidern | David Eppel | R.U. Sirius | Kashka Peck | Rose Lockwood | Jesse Talman Boss | Lillian L. Malmberg | Cyrus Mare | Michael Oosterom | Pollyanna Jacobs | Roger Shaw