Green Porno
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Promotional photo from the Housefly episode of Green Porno
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| Directed by |
Jody Shapiro Isabella Rossellini |
| Produced by |
Rick Gilbert Jody Shapiro Isabella Rossellini |
| Written by | Isabella Rossellini |
| Starring | Isabella Rossellini |
| Music by |
Andy Byers Rick Gilbert |
| Edited by |
Stacey Foster Cynthia Madansky Angelika Brudniak |
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| Language | English |
Green Porno is a series of short films on animal sexual behaviour. The series, which began in 2008 and aired on The Sundance Channel, is conceived, written, and directed by its star, Isabella Rossellini.
In the eight films that comprise the first season, Rossellini enacts the mating rituals of various insects and other animals (including the dragonfly, spider, bee, praying mantis, earthworm, snail and housefly) with cardboard cut-outs and foam-rubber sculptures. Season two is devoted to marine life. Season three deals with ocean life threatened by commercial fishing.
According to Rossellini, the idea for Green Porno stemmed from her relationships with both Robert Redford and his Sundance Channel. Rossellini had previously worked with Sundance on a previous short film "My Dad Is 100 Years Old." Redford believed that the internet and the burgeoning mobile internet, allowed for the "re-launch of the short film format."
The Sundance Channel set aside an experimental budget and proposed that Rossellini's project should fall into the purview of the Sundance's program “The Green.” Rossellini's love of animals and desire to balance out the current projects focusing on home and food with the animals that “surround us every day” yet have an “incredible variety of mating, which is very scandalous.”
Rossellini says that she does a great deal of research before each episode, then spends a while determining how to translate that research into "something visual and how to make it comical."
The goal, according to Rossellini, is to be both entertaining and educational.
Jody Shapiro and Rick Gilbert are responsible for translating the research and concepts that Rossellini has into the paper and paste costumes which directly contribute to the series' unique visual style. After the costumes are designed, approximately one animal is filmed per day, for a total production time of about ten months per season.
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