Conceiving Ada 1997  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Timothy Leary, Karen Black, Francesca Faridany, John Perry Barlow, John O'Keefe, J. D. Wolfe, Owen Murphy, David Brooks, Esther Mulligan
A computer genius, Emmy Coer (Francesca Faridany), devises software that allows her to communicate with a historical figure of the past. Her connection is with Ada Lovelace (Tilda Swinton)–a 19th-century mathematician who has been credited with writing the first computer program. Ada, the daughter of Lord Byron, was thwarted in her endeavors by the Victorian world's tenets dictating that women should stay home and raise children. Emmy plans to defeat death and give Ada a second chance in the modern-day world.
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Teknolust 2002  R, 85 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James Urbaniak, Karen Black, Josh Kornbluth, John O'Keefe, Al Nazemian, Thomas Jay Ryan, Abigail Van Alyn, Paule West, John Pirruccello, Dick Bright
Rosetta (Tilda Swinton) believes that the world would be a better place if artificial life was in the mix. Thus, using her DNA, she creates three clones–Self Replicating Automatons (SRA)–that are part computer and part living organism. But the SRAs require male semen to survive, so one of the SRAs, Ruby, takes care of that need by having sex with men and bringing back the semen for sharing. The men who had the encounters with Ruby break out with a skin rash and a bar code appearing on their foreheads. But, fear not; two investigators (James Urbaniak and Karen Black) are on the case.
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| 1. Conceiving Ada (1997)
2. Teknolust (2002)
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