The Faith of Nick Land

Visions of Heaven and Hell is a three-part 1994 BBC documentary exploring the prospects and terrors of the hi-tech future that was looming on the horizon in the early years of the internet. The film features a who’s who of prominent figures of the era: Silicon Valley titans like Bill Gates, industry-adjacent thought leaders like Howard Rheingold and Esther Dyson, cultural luminaries like David Byrne and William Gibson. The prevailing mood of techno-optimist hype is set off against an eerie score, dizzying montages of global cityscapes, and somber narration by Tilda Swinton.