Conceiving Ada

Conceiving Ada

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 19, 1999

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Science Fiction, Drama, Fantasy

User Score

45%

Original Title

Conceiving Ada

Production Companies

Complex Corporation, Hotwire Productions, Outpost Studios

Director

Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Description

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?