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Conceiving Ada

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Original title

Conceiving Ada

Year

1997

Running time

85 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Screenwriter

Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Eileen Jones

Cast

Music

The Residents

Cinematography

Hiro Narita, Bill Zarchy

Producer

Hotwire Productions, Outpost Studios

Genre

Drama. Sci-Fi | 19th Century

Synopsis

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?

Awards: 1998: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Someone to Watch Award

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Conceiving Ada

1997

Lynn Hershman-Leeson