James Franco New Movie: 'Interior. Leather Bar' To Premiere At Sundance In January (VIDEO)

What has James Franco been up to lately, you ask? The 34-year-old actor is set to publish a poetry book in 2014 , but we're more interested in a recent collaboration with San Francisco filmmaker Travis Mathews .

Their film, "Interior. Leather Bar," will premiere at Sundance New Frontiers program in January. Originally titled, "James Franco's 40 Minutes," the "homo-sex-art-film" is an homage to William Friedkin's 1980 thriller, "Cruising," starring a young Al Pacino. Forty minutes were cut from Friedkin's racy film, but the results still prompted censor Richard Heffner to proclaim, "There are not enough Xs in the alphabet" to rate it, the filmmaker once told the Guardian.

Watch the trailer below, and let us know what you think of the project in the comments section:

INTERIOR. LEATHER BAR. trailer from Travis Mathews on Vimeo .