Conceiving Ada
Timely and generally a well done movie. Tilda was excellent and a believeable character. Fascinating subject: catching lost memories from the past with computer intellegence. However, a pipe dream and...
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Lynn Hershman Leeson
Films
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Longshot
Fact and fiction blur in this faux documentary about a lost woman, Lian, who is searching for her own identity. Lian is manipulated by Dennis, a video editor. He captures surveillance footage of her and manipulates it in an attempt to manipulate and then possess her real life.Start your free trial to watch
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Seeing is Believing
Film becomes a metaphor for lost history and its “negative“ impact on successive generations who look for stability in an electronic world that lacks sufficient mediation. Video retrieves lost memories for the child who, through her camera, seeks to find her father.Start your free trial to watch
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Virtual Love
A love story for the 90s: Valery falls in love with an identical twin, a virtual reality scientist, and finds she can have a more intimate relationship with him through the computer screen than in person. Or is it really him? Commissioned by ZDF German Television, VIRTUAL LOVE features a number of virtual reality experts such...Start your free trial to watch
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The Electronic Diaries
A woman's personal life unfolds over twelve years in a video diary that simultaneously parallels and reflects global history. Personal fears and obsession dissolve into a story of triumph and empowerment as the protagonist eventually finds her voice.Start your free trial to watch
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Conceiving Ada
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...Start your free trial to watch
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Teknolust
Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton plays four roles in this award-winning science fiction film about Rosetta Stone and her three Self-Replicating Automatons (SRAs) which she clones from her own DNA. Though they look human, the SRA cyborgs were bred as intelligent machines and are immortal. In order to survive, they need...Start your free trial to watch
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Life Squared
This project uses mixed reality convergence through which users can participate in some of the digital existing archive of Lynn Hershman Leeson, now housed in the Special Collections Library at Stanford University. Created in 2006, this project is one of the first artist archive projects in Second Life and has been exhibited...Start your free trial to watch
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!Women Art Revolution
An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. Starting from its roots in 1960s antiwar and civil...Start your free trial to watch
Genres
- Science Fiction / Alternate Universe
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- International / Americas / North American / American
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- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
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- Avant-garde
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- Short / Documentary
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- Drama / Dysfunctional Family
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- Documentary / Art / Visual Arts / Motion Pictures
- Independent / Narrative
- Independent / Narrative
- Independent / Narrative
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- Drama / Pseudodocumentary
- Drama / Pseudodocumentary
- Drama / Pseudodocumentary
- Drama / Romantic Drama
- Drama / Romantic Drama
- Documentary / Social Issues
- Documentary / Social Issues
- Documentary / Social Issues
- Science Fiction / Utopia/Dystopia
- Science Fiction / Utopia/Dystopia
- Documentary / Art / Visual Arts
Recent Reviews
Conceiving Ada
Cheap production hurts this conceptually ambitious, if obvious in construction, film. Tilda Swinton is achingly beautiful and has some interesting soliloquies but it's all talk and little show. Although there...
Conceiving Ada
Now I will have to research Lord Bryon, Ada, Babbage and more.
Teknolust
Strange subject, pretty much a one actor piece. Odd, is the word.