Conceiving Ada

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Conceiving Ada
Directed by	Lynn Hershman Leeson
Produced by	Lynn Hershman Leeson, Henry S. Rosenthal
Written by	Lynn Hershman Leeson Eileen Jones
Starring	Tilda Swinton Francesca Faridany Timothy Leary Karen Black John O'Keefe John Perry Barlow J.D. Wolfe
Release date(s)	1997
Running time	85 min.
Language	English
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Conceiving Ada is a 1997 movie produced, written, and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson.

[edit] Cast

Role	Actor
Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace	Tilda Swinton
Emmy Coer	Francesca Faridany
Sims	Timothy Leary
Lady Byron/Mother Coer	Karen Black
Charles Babbage	John O'Keefe
John Crosse	John Perry Barlow
Nicholas Clayton	J.D. Wolfe
William Lovelace	Owen Murphy
Children's Tutor (David)	David Brooks

[edit] Synopsis

The film is about 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?