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Conceiving Ada (1999)

Conceiving Ada (1999)

Science Fiction Drama Fantasy
Release Date: 1999, February 19
Directors: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Countries: Canada, United States of America
Production: Complex Corporation, Hotwire Productions, Outpost Studios
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Francesca Faridany, Mark Capri, Dawn Robinson, Bill Stewart, Phillip Ristaino, David Brooks, Karen Black, Michael Oosterom, Timothy Leary, Lori Baker, John Perry Barlow

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?

Keywords:

woman director