Actress Rossellini’s ‘Green porno’ probes insect sex in phone-films

The minute long films, a series of eight titled “Green Porno,” are on handsets dangling on wires from a “mobile phone tree” in Paris’ Pompidou Center, for the three-day Pocket Films festival which opened Friday.

Their format — shot exclusively for viewing on 3G technology mobile phones — make them the “films of the future,” Rossellini told AFP in an interview.

“Watching (war epic) ‘Apocalypse Now’ on a mobile telephone is no fun — it was conceived as a big spectacle. But this tiny screen can be a new canvas for directors,” she said.

“The ‘fourth screen’ represented by the mobile telephone is a great opportunity for creativity,” she said, referring to the idea of mobiles as a fourth medium alongside television, cinema and the Internet.

Rossellini, 55, daughter of the actress Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini, grabbed film-goers’ attention with her disturbing erotic role as Dorothy Vallens in the 1986 David Lynch classic “Blue Velvet”.

Now she has donned fake bug eyes, wings and bee-stripes for the playful mini-films, which she also wrote and produced — adding a dash of stardom to the offbeat festival, which broke new ground when it was first held in 2005.

“If I were a firefly, I would light up my ass at night,” she declares, dressed as the insect of the first film’s title, before buzzing off to explain the creature’s mating habits.

“I have sex several times a day,” she says in another, posing as a regular fly, before demonstrating by mounting a huge toy bluebottle from behind.

The series was funded by the Sundance Institute, the body behind the Sundance independent film festival founded by the Hollywood actor Robert Redford, who granted 10,000 dollars for each short piece.

“At Sundance, there are lots of ‘green’ programs — about eating eco-labelled food, dressing and building your house with ecological materials,” Rossellini said. “I said to Robert: ‘What’s missing is a ‘green porno’!”

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