Movie

Conceiving Ada (1999)

• NR
• February 19, 1999
• 1h 25m

• Science Fiction
• Drama
• Fantasy

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?

Director

Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Writers

Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Eileen Jones

Starring

Tilda Swinton, Francesca Faridany, Timothy Leary