Conceiving Ada Movie Review 1997

Experimental film is a homage to Lady Ada Lovelace (Swinton), daughter of Lord Byron, a 19th-century mathematician who developed what is now considered the first computer programming language. Ada is regarded by contemporary computer scientist Amy Coer (Faridany) as her spiritual mentor and Amy becomes obsessed with devising a method to actually communicate with the long-deceased Ada, whose life uncannily paralells her own.

Distribution

Wellspring Media, A Division of Genius Products, Inc., 2230 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90904, Phone: (310)453-1222, Fax: (310)453-0074, URL: http://www.wellspring.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 85 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Women, Period Piece: 19th Century, Computers, Virtual Reality, Pregnant Pauses, Mathemagicians

Screenplay

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Eileen Jones

Cast

Tilda Swinton, Francesca Faridany, Karen Black, John E. O'Keefe, J.D. Wolfe, Timothy Leary, John Perry Barlow, Owen Murphy

Cinematography

Hiro Narita

Director

Lynn Hershman Leeson