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?
- Year: 1999
- Country: Canada
- Genre: Science Fiction, Drama, Fantasy
- Studio: Complex Corporation, Hotwire Productions, Outpost Studios
- Keyword: woman director
- Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
- Cast: Tilda Swinton, Francesca Faridany, Timothy Leary, Karen Black, John Perry Barlow, John O'Keefe