Conceiving Ada
Directed by Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Plot
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?
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Cast
Tilda Swinton
Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Francesca Faridany
Emmy Coer
Timothy Leary
Sims
Karen Black
Lady Byron / Mother Coer
John Perry Barlow
John Crosse
John O'Keefe
Charles Babbage
J.D. Wolfe
Nicholas Clayton
Owen Murphy
William Lovelace
David Brooks
Children's Tutor
Esther Mulligan
Mary Shelley
Ellen Sebastian
Dr. Fury
Mark Capri
Dr. Locock
Joe Wemple
Priest / Talk Show Host
Chris von Sneidern
Musician In Elevator
David Eppel
Simon