Conceiving Ada 25 years old

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?

Credits

Conceiving Ada Cast

Name Character
Karen Black She was 59, 74 years old when she died as Lady Byron / Mother Coer
Tilda Swinton She was 38, now 63 years old as Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Francesca Faridany She was 29, now 54 years old as Emmy Coer
Timothy Leary He was 78, 75 years old when he died as Sims

Conceiving Ada Crew

Name Department
Lynn Hershman Leeson as Director. She was 58 (now 83) years old Directing
Lynn Hershman Leeson as Producer. She was 58 (now 83) years old Production
Henry S. Rosenthal as Producer. Production
Conceiving Ada poster
Conceiving Ada (25 years)

  • Release day: Friday, February 19, 1999
  • Runtime: 85 minutes