The 60-minute film, which includes concert and backstage footage shot at the Irish capital's Olympia club by noted French filmmakers Vincent Moon and Jeremiah, will screen in movie theaters, rock clubs, college campuses, and other venues across the country throughout October and early November.

This Is Not A Show is the hour-long video portion of R.E.M. Live At the Olympia—a brand-new live CD+DVD that Warner Bros. Records will release on October 27th, 2009. The two-CD audio portion, produced by Jacknife Lee, features 39 songs that capture the best moments from the band's "working rehearsals" at the fabled Dublin venue during which singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, and bassist Mike Mills tested out new songs for R.E.M.'s 2008 studio album Accelerate.

Live At The Olympia ventures back to July 2007 when R.E.M. set up camp at the Olympia Theatre and tested new material over five nights before fired-up, capacity crowds comprised of fan-club members, friends, family, and fans from all over the world who were privy to R.E.M.'s so-called "experiment in terror," as guitarist Peter Buck puts it. "We were just trying to do something we hadn't done before," Buck says, "which meant there was no relaxing during the set. Every second we were playing something we didn't know all that well. Which was kind of good — there were all kinds of terror elements going on during that show."

This Is Not A Show premiered in late September 2009 at the Sound Unseen festival in Minneapolis. Below are also screening dates confirmed so far: