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Conceiving Ada

45 %|Feb 19, 1999|Science Fiction, Drama, Fantasy

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?

Featured Crew

Henry S. Rosenthal
Producer
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Director
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Producer
Hiro Narita
Director of Photography
The Residents
Original Music Composer
Robert Dalva
Editor
Laura F. Haynes
Art Direction
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Writer

Cast

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Tilda Swinton
Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
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Karen Black
Lady Byron / Mother Coer
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John O'Keefe
Charles Babbage
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J.D. Wolfe
Nicholas Clayton
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Owen Murphy
William Lovelace
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David Brooks
Children's Tutor
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Esther Mulligan
Mary Shelley
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Mark Capri
Dr. Locock
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Joe Wemple
Priest / Talk Show Host
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Chris von Sneidern
Musician In Elevator
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Kashka Peck
Teenage Ada
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Rose Lockwood
Child Ada / Claire
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Lillian L. Malmberg
Anne Isabelle Byron
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Cyrus Mare
Ralph Byron
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Pollyanna Jacobs
Cocktail Server
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Roger Shaw
Priest (voice)