Conceiving Ada

Conceiving Ada

Actors:  Tilda Swinton, Francesca Faridany, Timothy Leary, Karen Black, John Perry Barlow, Directors:  Lynn Hershman-Leeson

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...