A director's statement in the film's production notes states that "Conceiving Ada" was "structured around the idea of a double helix."

"The Written" as the Vocation of Conceiving Jewishly.

"Conceiving Family Relations in Post-War Lebanon."

"Conceiving Ada" parallels Emmy's life with Ada's.

That's the intriguing premise of Lynn Hershman Leeson's film, "Conceiving Ada," a movie that is much better at throwing out ideas than at telling a story or at creating compelling characters.

NEW JERSEY FILM FESTIVAL "Conceiving Ada," by Lynn Hershman Leeson.

In the entry entitled "Paradigmata" in his study, "'The Written' as the Vocation of Conceiving Jewishly", John W McGinley gives an accounting of how this name functions in the Bavli's version of "four entered pardes".

Her three feature films - Strange Culture, Teknolust, Conceiving Ada - have been part of the Sundance Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival and The Berlin International Film Festival, among others, and have won numerous awards.

She starred in "Conceiving Ada," playing Ada Augusta Byron King, Lord Byron's daughter, who may have invented the first computer language, and, hugely pregnant with her twins, in Tim Roth's grim, deeply moving 1999 drama about incest, "The War Zone."

Written and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson, who guided Ms. Swinton to a more effective performance in the 1998 film "Conceiving Ada," "Teknolust" has a lot on its mind but little on the ball when it comes to transforming thematic notions into dramatic concepts.

TEKNOLUST - Lynn Hershman-Leeson, who wrote and directed the feminist science-fiction film "Conceiving Ada," returns to the genre with the satirical story of a geneticist (Tilda Swinton) who creates three female clones, only to discover that they need male fluids to survive.

I never could have conceived the end of the relationship.

She died much the same way as we were conceived.

And he had not yet conceived a plan of action!

How do we feel about children conceived with the help of technology?

The idea to start the university was conceived in 2005.

The child must have been conceived very close to the day the war began.

At the time, public schools were conceived of as a place to learn how to be an American.

After years of trying, she has not been able to conceive.

He could not conceive of building a city any other way.

They never conceived that their husband would ever go to war.

On that night, she was certain, their child had been conceived.

And it was rather well conceived, even if I say so myself.

What may have happened to turn him against you, I cannot conceive.

I was in a world of cold such as you cannot conceive.

"The show is still pretty much what we conceived on that night."

She should have thought about the baby before it was conceived.

And if she happened to conceive along the way, all the better.

We spent the rest of the summer trying to help her conceive.

No one thought she would ever conceive life, least of all her.

The film was at first conceived as being eight hours long.

No, Nature herself could never conceive of such a face.

I could not conceive of being away from her so long.

Her child had been conceived in the very bed she sat on.

She said they are trying to put together enough money to try to conceive another child.

During this time, he conceived of the idea for the company World 50.