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?
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Tilda Swinton
Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Known for
Doctor Strange
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Francesca Faridany
Emmy Coer
Known for
Manifest
Hunters
Timothy Leary
Sims
Known for
Shocker
Eileen Jones
Henry S Rosenthal
Karen Black
Lady Byron / Mother Coer
Known for
House of 1000 Corpses
Five Easy Pieces
Sadie Plant
John Perry Barlow
John Crosse
Also in
Endangered Species
Betty A Toole
John O'Keefe
Charles Babbage
J.D. Wolfe
Nicholas Clayton
Also in
Monday Night Mayhem
Owen Murphy
William Lovelace
Lynn Hershman-Leeson Director · Eileen Jones Writer Hiro Narita Cinematographer
United States release February 19, 1999 · Produced in Canada, United States · Production Hotwire Productions, Outpost Studios
Production
Complex Corporation
Production
Hotwire Productions
Production
Outpost Studios
Production
Canada · United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Canada · September 10, 1997
Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
United States · February 19, 1999
Theatrical
Germany
February 16, 1998 · Berlin International Film Festival
Japan
August 2, 2003 · Tokyo
South Korea
June 2, 2017 · SEOUL International Women's Film Festival
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