Hasta La Ideas

Just a few days ago, as we were watching him put on his best Bruce Nauman face, we told you that we were beginning to suffer from James Franco-as-artist overexposure, after a summer of seemingly endless coverage of all the odd/artistic things he was getting up to. Now, we have to say, he’s potentially won us back with the news that he’s been selected to participate in the Sundance Institute‘s New Frontier program, which “brings together established and emerging artists…to provide for them a film festival environment to share their work, and for festival audiences to explore the latest in cinematic innovation and transmedia storytelling.” Granted, Franco’s actorly-acting has been seen at the Sundance Film Festival before, but thus far not in his artist persona. His subject? We’ll let the program’s own description of his planned work do the talking:

Three’s Company: The Drama is a multi-media examination of the classic 70s sit-com. Television has undoubtedly shaped our world: our increased exposure to dramatic entertainment, the shapes of our houses, the shape of the time in our day. In this piece James Franco hopes to pull television from the box and view it from “a slightly oblique perspective”.

Whatever this winds up being is set to appear at the festival, which happens at the end of January. We expect to see it up everywhere on YouTube shortly thereafter.

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