Released:
1999-02-19

Overview:
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?

Director:
Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Runtime:
1h 25min

Genre:
Science Fiction, Drama, Fantasy

• Cast:
• 
  Tilda Swinton
  as
  Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
• 
  Francesca Faridany
  as
  Emmy Coer
• 
  Timothy Leary
  as
  Sims
• 
  Karen Black
  as
  Lady Byron / Mother Coer
• 
  John Perry Barlow
  as
  John Crosse