Conceiving Ada

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?

• Lynn Hershman-LeesonDirector
• Lynn Hershman-LeesonWriter
• Eileen JonesWriter

• Tilda SwintonAda Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
• Francesca FaridanyEmmy Coer
• Timothy LearySims
• Karen BlackLady Byron / Mother Coer
• John Perry BarlowJohn Crosse
• John O'KeefeCharles Babbage
• J.D. WolfeNicholas Clayton
• Owen MurphyWilliam Lovelace
• David BrooksChildren's Tutor
• Esther MulliganMary Shelley
• Ellen SebastianDr. Fury
• Mark CapriDr. Locock