Conceiving Ada

Conceiving Ada

85 mins | Drama, Science Fiction, Fantasy | Feb. 19, 1999

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?

Conceiving Ada

85 mins | Drama, Science Fiction, Fantasy | Feb. 19, 1999

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?
IMDb rating 5.0
Producers Hotwire Productions, Outpost Studios, Complex Corporation
Original title Conceiving Ada
Directors Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Writers Eileen Jones, Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Cast

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

John Perry Barlow

as John Crosse

John O'Keefe

as Charles Babbage

J.D. Wolfe

as Nicholas Clayton

Owen Murphy

as William Lovelace

David Brooks

as Children's Tutor

Esther Mulligan

as Mary Shelley

Ellen Sebastian

as Dr. Fury

Mark Capri

as Dr. Locock

Joe Wemple

as Priest / Talk Show Host

Chris von Sneidern

as Musician In Elevator

David Eppel

as Simon

R.U. Sirius

as Barlow

Kashka Peck

as Teenage Ada

Rose Lockwood

as Child Ada / Claire

Jesse Talman Boss

as Baby Ada

Lillian L. Malmberg

as Anne Isabelle Byron

Cyrus Mare

as Ralph Byron

Michael Oosterom

as Lord Byron

Pollyanna Jacobs

as Cocktail Server

Roger Shaw

as Priest (voice)