Conceiving Ada

Sort of a cross between Tron and Orlando, this 1997 first feature by video and installation artist Lynn Hershman Leeson is lively in spots but periodically becomes an unintentional hoot. A computer programmer and genetic memory expert (Francesca Faridany) accesses the revolutionary Ada Byron King (who else but Tilda Swinton?), seeing and conversing with Lord Byron

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