Green Porno+
Ever wondered about the sadomasochistic sex lives of snails? Or about the cannibalistic maternal instincts of hamsters? Wonder no more, for the one and only Isabella Rossellini explains it all in these singularly strange and delightful short films that combine science, performance art, and DIY puppetry to illuminate the intimate, unexpected oddities of the natural world. Across a trio of acclaimed series—GREEN PORNO, SEDUCE ME, and MAMMAS—Rossellini enacts the animal kingdom’s most surprising habits and rituals for a surreal biology course unlike any other. They’re presented alongside her other recent work as a filmmaker, which further grapples with the animal kingdom by exploring Darwin’s theory of evolution.
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1 seasonGreen Porno
1 season
Anchovy orgies, sadomasochistic snails, and hermaphrodite worms—Isabella Rossellini reveals the wacky, kinky, confounding mating rituals of insects and marine life in this blissfully bonkers, utterly singular short-film series. With brightly colored costumes and paper puppets, Rossellini acts out...
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1 seasonSeduce Me
1 season
Isabella Rossellini’s follow-up to her one-of-a-kind GREEN PORNO delves further into the surprising, eccentric mating rituals of the animal, marine, and insect worlds. From the anything-goes free love practiced by the creatively kinky dolphin to the startlingly violent reproductive methods of the...
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1 seasonMammas
1 season
What does it mean to be a mother? It all depends on the species. Continuing her captivatingly offbeat investigation into the myriad oddities of the animal kingdom that she began with the acclaimed GREEN PORNO series, Isabella Rossellini explores the maternal instincts of creatures great and small...
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1 seasonIsabella and Darwin
1 season
Art-house legend Isabella Rossellini’s long-standing fascination with the process of evolution and the work of Charles Darwin inspires this series of enlightening short and mid-length films, which delve into some of the pioneering naturalist’s most fascinating, confounding, and provocative theori...