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The three latest projects from Spike Lee are not coming to a theater near you. Ever. They're playing only on your PC, via the Internet -- on a tiny virtual TV set all of 2 1/2 inches big. The five-minute films, which debuted in February at http://www.real.com, were commissioned by Progressive Networks to promote its new RealPlayer software, which can pull live video feeds onto the Net like a TV station plucks shows off a satellite.
One short centers on the use of the Net in classrooms at P.S. 183 in Lee's native Brooklyn; another spotlights Broadway hoofer Savion Glover, who shows off a few steps -- as well as 13 pairs of tap shoes; the third's a monologue on acting by John Turturro, a veteran of Lee's movies. The filmmaker says that to make the introspective documentaries succeed on such a small scale, he shot only at medium and close range: ''We knew going in it wouldn't be the screen at the Ziegfeld theater [in New York City].''
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