Conceiving Ada (1997)
85 min
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
- February 19, 1999
- Country of origin
- United States, United Kingdom
Trailer
Cast
- Tilda Swinton as Ada Byron King
- Francesca Faridany as Emmy Coer
- Timothy Leary as Sims
- Karen Black as Lady Byron
- Karen Black as Mother Coer
- John O'Keefe as Charles Babbage
- John Perry Barlow as John Crosse
- J.D. Wolfe as Nicholas Clayton
- Owen Murphy as William Lovelace
- David Brooks as Children's Tutor
- Esther Mulligan as Mary Shelley
Crew
- Lynn Hershman Leeson · Director
- Lynn Hershman Leeson · Writer
- Eileen Jones · Writer
- Sadie Plant · Writer
- Betty A. Toole · Writer
- Lynn Hershman Leeson · Producer
- Henry S. Rosenthal · Producer
- The Residents · Composer
- Hiro Narita · Cinematographer
- Bill Zarchy · Cinematographer
- Robert Dalva · Editor
- Lynn Hershman Leeson · Editor
- Lynn Hershman Leeson · Production designer