Mila Kunis and James Franco on the set of his new project “Tar”

“Tar” is a short film project of James Franco and his class, inspired by a different C.K. Williams poem about “decay, but also a sense of memory and rejuvenation.”

In November, the class traveled to Detroit, a place where memory and attempts at rejuvenation abound, to shoot the movie. James compared the film to the multidirector mash-ups “New York, I Love You” and its predecessor, “Paris, Je T’aime.”