Conceiving Ada
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| Conceiving Ada | |
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| 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) | 10 September 1997 |
| Running time | 85 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Conceiving Ada is a 1997 movie produced, written, and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Produced by Lynn Hershman Leeson and Henry S. Rosenthal. Directors of Photography: Hiro Narita, Bill Zarchy
[edit] Synopsis
The film is about Emmy Coer, a computer genius, who 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?
[edit] Cast
- Tilda Swinton as Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
- Francesca Faridany as Emmy Coer
- Timothy Leary as Sims
- Karen Black as Lady Byron/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 (David)
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