Bay Area Premiere! Introduced by James Brook Warning: tonight's program is not Windows 95-compatible. Commissioned by England's Channel Four, director Harrison's Visions of Heaven and Hell predicts a not-so-distant future in which technology thoroughly penetrates everyday life, displacing social relationships with a formless web of stratified information and global capital. This foreboding film poem, punctuated by fluid time-lapse photography à la Godfrey Reggio, looks at the impact of technological dependence on communal identity, the value of labor and, at some level, the very definition of democracy. Predictions are elicited from such techno-thinkers as Douglas Adams, Esther Dyson, Faith Popcorn, and John Naisbitt, then bracketed by a cautionary text, almost Blakean in its troubled predilections. Organized in three parts, Visions of Heaven and Hell begins with the Industry's shrill sales pitch for an info-future and proceeds toward a model of the new techno-state, Singapore, or what William Gibson glibly calls "Disneyland with death penalties." Tilda Swinton narrates with an assuring voice that recalls a Stepford wife on Pentium.-Steve Seid James Brook, a Bay Area critic and writer, recently edited Resisting the Virtual Life, a collection of essays on technology and culture.