Conceiving Ada
- IMDb link: 0118882
- IMDb rating: 5 (557 votes)
- Genres: Sci-Fi, Drama, Fantasy
- Director: Tilda Swinton, Lynn Hershman-Leeson
- Cast: Karen Black, Timothy Leary, Francesca Faridany and others
- Release date: 19 Feb 1999
- Release year: 1999
- Runtime: 85 minutes
- Country: United States, Germany
- Keywords: candlelit bath, crying, implanted memory, scene during opening credits, female topless nudity, 19th century, singing in an elevator, quest for identity, scientific research, science
Plot:
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?