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Synopsis

Starring Tilda Swinton, Conceiving Ada is a mesmerizing and experimental indie that explores the life of Lord Byron's daughter, an astounding visionary in her own right.

Sometimes known as "the mother of all programmers," Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace, wrote what is now known as the first computer language and predicted its use in music, poetry and art. Born a female original thinker in the Victorian era, Ada's passions and perversions forced her to live a double life. The duality of her existence as mother/visionary, lover/fiercely independent thinker, wife/schemer is acknowledged in the film by weaving a narrative that references the dual strands of the DNA molecule. Conceiving Ada is structured around the idea of a double helix. Cryptically embedded into the story is how DNA strands cause genetic memory to weave through four generations. Each scene was structured and shot using a DNA image as a model.