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If you didn’t see Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno series of extraordinary shorts for the 2008 Sundance Channel, hie thee there now. Rossellini impersonated, and soliloquised on the sexual habits of, a series of insects including the fly (above), Praying Mantis, and earthworm.

In an interview over at The Daily Beast, she makes a good, Bookkake-esque point about the nomenclature:

Listen, I took advantage of the fact that there’s a certain fixation in people about sex, and that’s why I called it Green Porno. I was very aware that the name was provocative, and there’s a lot of people coming to our site who think it’s porno, and then they get a nice little film. There’s a titillating interest in sex, and I took advantage of that in making a film about how the animals have sex instead of a film about how they take care of their babies. If we made a film called Different Ways To Be Mamas, we wouldn’t get the same hits.

Excellent news, however, that Sundance have comissioned a second series, focussing on sea creatures. And if any well-heeled Bookkake readers are planning to attend The Language of Love in the Italian Renaissance at the Metropolitan on December 9th, where Rossellini “will read in Italian, English, and French from great love poems and dialogues on the nature of love, as well as from the immensely popular bawdy verses of the period”, we’d love to hear a report.