Every song on the new R.E.M. [1] album, "Collapse Into Now," will be accompanied by a short film created by 11 different filmmakers, among them documentarian Albert Maysles and Michael Stipe [2] himself. Actor James Franco directs two of the films, for "That Someone is You" and "Blue."

Stipe personally curated the Collapse Into Now Film Project. The band's website, remhq.com [3], will release details about when and where the films will be available for viewing over the next several weeks.

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Warner Bros. Records will release R.E.M.'s "Collapse Into Now" on Tuesday. The album is currently streaming on NPR [5].

The directors for each song are Michael Stipe and Lynda Stipe ("Discoverer"); James Herbert ("All the Best"); Sam Taylor-Wood ("Uberlin"); Jem Cohen ("Oh My Heart"); Tom Gilroy ("It Happened Today"); Jim McKay, Chris Moukarbel and Valerie Veatch ("Every Day is Yours to Win"); Dominic DeJoseph ("Mine Smell Like Honey"); Sophie Calle ("Walk It Back"); Lance Bangs ("Alligator_Autopilot_Antimatter"); James Franco ("That Someone is You," "Blue"); and Albert Maysles and Bradley Kaplan ("Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I").

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