
Born in Flames(1983)
In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.


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?

Tilda Swinton
Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace

Francesca Faridany
Emmy Coer

Timothy Leary
Sims

Karen Black
Lady Byron / Mother Coer
John Perry Barlow
John Crosse
John O'Keefe
Charles Babbage
J.D. Wolfe
Nicholas Clayton
Owen Murphy
William Lovelace

David Brooks
Children's Tutor
Esther Mulligan
Mary Shelley
Conceiving Ada is a science fiction, drama, fantasy film released in 1999 exploring themes of woman director. Directed by Lynn Hershman-Leeson, it stars Tilda Swinton, Francesca Faridany, Timothy Leary. 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?
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