Conceiving Ada

The story

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?

Cast & crew

Tilda SwintonAda Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace

Francesca FaridanyEmmy Coer

Timothy LearySims

Karen BlackLady Byron / Mother Coer

John Perry Barlow

John Perry BarlowJohn Crosse

John O'Keefe

John O'KeefeCharles Babbage

J.D. Wolfe

J.D. WolfeNicholas Clayton

Owen Murphy

Owen MurphyWilliam Lovelace

David BrooksChildren's Tutor

Esther Mulligan

Esther MulliganMary Shelley

Ellen Sebastian

Ellen SebastianDr. Fury

Mark CapriDr. Locock