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Conceiving Ada Cover Image DVD DVD

Conceiving Ada

Hershman-Leeson, Lynn, 1941- (Added Author). Jones, Eileen, 1962- (Added Author). Rosenthal, Henry S. (Added Author). Swinton, Tilda. (Added Author). Faridany, Francesca. (Added Author). Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996 (Added Author). Black, Karen, 1942- (Added Author). Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen. (Added Author). Association relative à la télévision européenne. (Added Author). Hotwire Productions. (Added Author). Complex Corporation. (Added Author). Microcinema, Inc. (Added Author). Tilda Swinton, Francesca Faridany, Timothy Leary, Karen Black, John O'Keefe, John Perry Barlow, J.D. Wolfe. (Cast).

Summary: "In this award-winning film which was the first to use 'virtual sets,' Academy-Award winner Tilda Swinton embodies Lady Ada Lovelace, daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron, and the mathematics genius who developed what became the world's first computer language 100 years before computers were invented. Ada's story is channeled through Emmy (Francesca Faridany), a contemporary computer scientist researching artificial life. By using her own DNA genetic code, Emmy collapses time and is able to communicate directly with Ada. Realizing how parallel their lives are, she embarks on the task of 'saving' Ada. In the process, the borders between past and present, virtual and real, blur and Ada and Emmy both recognize the implications [of] their place in time"--Container.

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  • Physical Description: videorecording
    videodisc
    1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Microcinema International, c2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:
DVD release of the 1997 motion picture.
Special features include: Discussion with director Lynn Hershman Leeson and Tilda Swinton.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Director of photography, Hiro Narita; editor, Robert Dalva; music, The Residents.
Participant or Performer Note: Tilda Swinton, Francesca Faridany, Timothy Leary, Karen Black, John O'Keefe, John Perry Barlow, J.D. Wolfe.
System Details Note:
DVD.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Licensed for: home, library, classroom, ILL.

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Subject: Lovelace, Ada King -- Countess of -- 1815-1852 -- Drama
Computer art
Women mathematicians -- Great Britain
Computers and women
Genre: Science fiction films.
Experimental films.
Feature films.

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Emily Carr University of Art + Design PN1997 .C6567 2010 (Text) 30232421 Video Volume hold Available -
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