Green Porno: A Book and Short Films by Isabella Rossellini

By Isabella Rossellini

Book Overview

"I was always fascinated by the infinite' strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate." - Isabella Rossellini When Isabella Rossellini and The Sundance Channel set out to make a series of short films for the internet about the sex lives of animals' they had no idea what was in store. GREEN PORNO' the colorful' indescribable' wonderfully odd shorts became a sensation on the internet' receiving over 1.3 million views and major national publicity including CNN' David Letterman' The New York Times Magazine' Wired and the Wall Street Journal. The overwhelming success of the shorts led Sundance to commission a second GREEN PORNO series which is to focus on marine animals: shrimp' squid seals etc. (The first series focused primarily on insects) Co-director Jody Shapiro has taken 125 arresting film stills of Isabella dressed in animal costumes which are the centerpiece of the book' along with narrative text describing the "love making" process of each animal. Each chapter will also include a quirky' freakonomics style one-sheet that includes surprising facts about each species. GREEN PORNO also includes a DVD of both GREEN PORNO series which are not available for sale elsewhere. Provocative' hilarious' and truly one of a kind' GREEN PORNO is a great gift--for readers of Michael Pollan and fans of independent film alike. Isabella has committed to promoting the book at the time of publication. Praise for GREEN PORNO FILMS "Shocking' whimsical' entertaining"-Shine " Rossellini] plays the male of each species in splendidly kitschy home-made costumes' while explaining the procedures in a humorous running commentary"- Telegraph "Bright colors' goofy leotard-based costumes' undulating foam rubber-it's hot stuff."-Playboy "Magical" - The Flog "Rossellini's subjects carry the weight of a fierce' natural morality."- Border Crossings "A funny and insightful study of the curious ways various bugs "make love." - Hot Docs 2008 "Rossellini has really done the unexpected"- The Auteurs

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061791067
• ISBN13: 9780061791062
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: It Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Artistic Relevance in Short Film

Isabella Rossellini has used her status as actor, model, and animal activist to produce a work that adheres to each level of her career while providing an entertaining, informative product. "Green Porno" effectively mixes elements of humor, surrealism, and science to lay bare all the activities one only previously assumed the animal kingdom participated in - debauchery and sexual gratification to the extreme. The short films themselves are self-contained fast facts that both shock and amaze in their collaboration of the extremely suggestive (Rossellini's gyrating hips and oversized sexual organs) and the juvenile (cartoons and puppetry). The end result? A fascinating dive into the sexual behaviours intrinsic to all life, putting forth applicable questions of gender, sexual mores, sadomasochism, and even metaphorical cannibalism. Even greater appreciation must be heaped upon Rossellini's shoulders in her frank debasement of rhetoric and the carnal underscore apparent in many common English phrases. While these elements are abstract and certainly collegiate principals, the material is never pretentious beyond its admittedly odd turn in the final segment "Elephant Seals." Animal rights are brought under scruity by both Isabella and a biologist during the second series "Marine Animals", but the revelations are not as distracting as one might assume. Although the DVD is toted as an additional feature of the book, I consider the writings secondary to the short films themselves. The stills, however, further fuel the argument that Isabella could land a Lancôme contract even at her current age. In any event, "Green Porno" is a true erotic education from earthworm to whale, and one would be amiss to overlook the sexual artistry.

The true nature of wild animal sex!

You will most likely not find any other book and video that contains words such as penis, vagina, anus, and all other body parts of the animal's sexual and asexual reproduction that will be suitable for kids of all ages as Isabella Rossellini's //Green Porno//. Nor will you probably find a book or video that deals with decidedly deviant, shockingly scandalous, and unapologetically animalistic activities and behavior. If you are repelled by this idea--of showing your kids how the bee, the earthworm, the snail, the spider, the fly, the shrimp, the barnacle, the limpet, the starfish, the anglerfish, the anchovy, the squid, and other such animals have sex, then Rossellini's book with the companion video is not for your kids, and not for you. But, if you want a magnificently fun way of showing your kids (or even the kid in you) the scientifically accurate and honest-to-goodness stories about how animals have sex, then your search stops here. In //Green Porno//, this book and directorial debut by Rossellini (who is the daughter of actress Ingrid Bergman and filmmaker Roberto Rossellini), the animal's sex stories are told with a fantastic sense of humor and fantasy. Reviewed by Dominique James

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very funny, interesting angle about the the animals around us. u would laugh and see the world around u.

Review of Green Prono

I had seen the author interviewed on television, so knew about her very creative work. The pictures in the book showing her costumns for the teaching aspect are super. Her work is delightful, funny, shocking and colorful all at once. The choice of color is great and descriptions really cannot do the book justice. L Holt