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

“It was great fun to film,” the actress said. “The most difficult thing was to stay dead still in the worm costume for hours, without drinking or scratching my eyelid.”

After “Firefly,” “Dragonfly,” “Spider,” “Fly,” “Snail,” “Bee,” “Mantis” and “Worm,” Rossellini plans to make six more films in the series in September.

This year’s Pocket Films, organized by the movie archive organization Forum des Images, features dozens of works filmed with or for mobile telephones by school children, amateurs and professionals from around the world.

Some are shown on big screens, while others — true to the innovative spirit of the festival — can only be watched on the hanging phones of the “trees,” with headphones. Some can even be downloaded by visitors onto their phones and taken away.

For the first time, the festival offers a prize for a film made exclusively for viewing on a mobile telephone — as well as its usual award for movies shot using a phone or a digital camera.

As the festival gains momentum, more film heavyweights are also getting in on the act — one of those in competition is “Out in There,” by the Chinese director Jia Zhangke who won the Gold Lion at the 2006 Venice Film Festival.

The avant-garde New York artist Stephen Dwoskin, who made his two latest films using a mobile telephone, was also in Paris for the event.

“With this edition we feel that we are witnessing a real departure.

The ‘fourth screen’ represented by the mobile telephone is a great opportunity for creativity,” said the Forum’s director Laurence Herszberg.

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