Conceiving Ada
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- Runtime
- 85 mins
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?
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?
Cast
- Tilda Swinton
- Francesca Faridany
- Timothy Leary
- Karen Black
- John Perry Barlow
- John O'Keefe
- J.D. Wolfe
- Owen Murphy
- David Brooks
- Esther Mulligan
- Ellen Sebastian
- Mark Capri
- Joe Wemple
- Chris von Sneidern
- David Eppel
- R.U. Sirius
- Kashka Peck
- Rose Lockwood
- Jesse Talman Boss
- Lillian L. Malmberg
- Cyrus Mare
- Michael Oosterom
- Pollyanna Jacobs
- Roger Shaw
- Bruce Sterling
- Dave Nelson
- Henry S. Rosenthal
- George Leeson
- Melissa Howden
- Josh Rosen
- Lynn Hershman-Leeson
- Lavay Smith
- Bing Nathan
- Chris Siebert
- Bill Stewart
- Rosemary Astromsky
- Brooke Baggett
- Lori Baker
- Stack Buss
- Ellen Sebastian Chang
- Ethan Hay
- Geoffrey Herreman
- Seanne-Marie Jacobsen
- Michelle Kopecky
- Sharon Leong
- Jafer Louahdi
- Kenneth Lorber
- Melissa Margolis
- Phillip Ristaino
- Kit Robberson
- Dawn Robinson
- Jackie D. Stewart
- Lena Strayhorn
- Greg Thomas
- Tabitha Warren
- Charles Pinion
Director
- Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Producers
- Henry S. Rosenthal
- Lynn Hershman-Leeson
