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Conceiving Ada 1999

β˜… 4.310 votes85 minπŸ“… 1999-02-19

Overview

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 t

Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Cast

Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton
Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Francesca Faridany
Francesca Faridany
Emmy Coer
Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary
Sims
Karen Black
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
David Brooks
Children's Tutor
Esther Mulligan
Mary Shelley

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