I am Giddy with Green Porno

The internet kicks my ass once again!

I read about this Green Porno thing a couple months ago, I can't remember where but it might have been the print copy of Bitch Magazine. It sounded fantastic, and I duly searched the internet, but it quickly became clear that it was not available yet. There is no way to adequately explain what Green Porno is, so I will just say that Isabella Rossellini made some (very) short films demonstrating how certain insects mate. They are all of the following: bizarre, hilarious, to the point, graphic, slightly anthropomorphized, impressively costumed, and minimally set. They are exactly what I hoped and dreamed when I first read about them, and watching them I felt a euphoria similar to that I felt when I saw the Spock Impersonator Oil Paintings of Professor Snape and Company.

I really cannot explain how random and amazing this is, so will just urge everyone to enjoy them here.

It's super cool that the Sundance Channel would fund something like this, and especially that they would then make it available on the internet, where it rightfully belongs. Isabella Rossellini is obviously beautiful and accomplished, but it took watching The Saddest Movie In the World last year to make me realize how truly interesting she is. I didn't love that movie - it was quite strange and the black and white vaseline lens is not my cup of tea - but I appreciated how much she seemed to enjoy playing a legless beer baroness, and that her presence in the movie added a certain legitimacy to such a singular, abstract and artsy work. That she would create (write, direct and star in) Green Porno is inspiring, and her obvious glee playing the male insect roles makes me happy for myself as a viewer and her as the agent of these one-minute shorts. I tend to like anything gender-bending anyway, and I feel like I should say something about that aspect here, but the shorts are so far outside any frameworks I already have to work with that any sort of analysis would require too much thought process for me at this time.

As with the Snape oil-painting post referenced above, I feel the need to end this post thanking the internet at large, and Isabella Rossellini in particular, for the existence of Green Porno. My definite favorite is the Bee, so if you're only going to watch one, click that when you get there.

For the record, I owe somebody a hat tip for the link but cannot for the life of me figure out who. Where did I see this last night when I was stoned roaming the internet? I've gone through my internet history and searched some of the websites I frequent, I really can't figure it out. Sorry whoever you are.

(Cross-posted at You All Everybody!)