
Conceiving Ada
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: 1999-02-19
Science Fiction
Drama
Fantasy
★★★★★★★★★★ (9 votes)
Official website: http://www.lynnhershman.com/ada/
Casts

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

David Brooks
as Children's Tutor

Mark Capri
as Dr. Locock

Michael Oosterom
as Lord Byron

Lynn Hershman-Leeson
as CD Rom (Voice)

Dawn Robinson
as Club Patron

Charles Pinion
as (uncredited)