From: Lynn Hershman
Subject: "Conceiving Ada" with John Perry Barlow
Dear Friends,
John Perry Barlow plays Ada Lovelace's (Tilda Swinton) lover in Conceiving Ada.
We are thrilled to tell you that CONCEIVING ADA, which B. Ruby Rich listed as ONE OF THE TEN BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR, will be theatrically released:
February 19 at the Lumiere in San Francisco and
February 26 at the Cinema Village in New York.
Themes of love, sex, artificial life, DNA transference, history and memory intertwine in the first feature film by award-winning artist Lynn Hershman Leeson.
"Riveting" Sid Aidelman, Toronto Star
The film won OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA at the Electronic Cinema Festival in Japan, and has screened at approximately 35 festivals worldwide, including The Toronto International Film Festival, The Sundance Film Festival, Riocinne, and The Berlin Film Festival (where it was the image for the festival poster).
CONCEIVING ADA is an imagined biography of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace, played by TILDA SWINTON. The daughter of the poet Lord Byron, the mathematics genius, developed in 1832 what became the world's first computer language. The film features KAREN BLACK, TIMOTHY LEARY (in his last performance), JOHN PERRY BARLOW and original music by THE RESIDENTS. The film is produced by Henry S. Rosenthal.
This is the first film to ever be produced with virtual sets, a process that was invented and patented for the film.
THE OFFICIAL CONCEIVING ADA SITE
http://www.ted.net/ada/
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (FROM TELOPOLIS MAGAZINE)
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/pop/topic_2/4102/1.html
CONCEIVING ADA'S LISTING AT THE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL '98
http://www.sundancechannel.com/festival98/filmguide/films/conceivi.tin
Wednesday, February 10th, 1999 danlyke@flutterby.com