Green Porno: A Book and Short Films by Isabella Rossellini

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.

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

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

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