Isabella Rossellini is Ingrid Bergman's daughter. Lately, she has been transforming her strong sense of entitlement coming from Ingrid's adulation into "educational porn" short films.
If you didn’t know, she’s Ingrid Bergman’s daughter. As it should be obvious from this photo:
A potential sponsor called to say they liked the films but that they couldn't support anything that had the word "porno" in it, so we made a series similar called Seduce Me. Green Porno is about the mating habits of animals and Seduce Me is about the courtship rituals of animals. Although we took out every word that could have been offensive we still didn't find any finance.
Come again?
Welcome to the quirky world of Seduce Me, the latest series of disarming short films from the 58-year-old actress, model and ex-wife of Martin Scorsese best known for Blue Velvet, Fearless and Death Becomes Her. The films, produced by Robert Redford's Sundance Channel, are written and co-directed by Rossellini, who takes three minutes or less to portray the bizarre seduction rituals of animals around us, with help from paper puppets, foam film sets and often unflattering costumes that never fall short of heroic. The films are described as "the spawn of Green Porno" referring to Rossellini's Webby award-winning previous series of equally outlandish shorts exploring the sexual proclivities of bees, barnacles and other creatures.
From wikipedia:
She is probably best known for her pivotal role as the tortured nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens in David Lynch's Blue Velvet. (..)
In 2008, Rossellini toured the festival circuit, including the Sundance Film Festival, with a series of short films entitled Green Porno, which she wrote and co-directed with Jody Shapiro. Each Green Porno film is two minutes long, and has Rossellini reenacting the mating rituals of various animals.
Based on her success with Green Porno, in 2009 Rossellini headed the judging panel of the first Metropolis Art Prize, an art video contest run by web and mobile video service Babelgum, culminating in a large scale art display across the giant advertising monitors in Times Square, New York. Rossellini has been announced as the President of the Jury for the 61st Berlin International Film Festival in 2011.
The new series, Seduce Me, is the continuation of Green Porno:
[sundance1] [tvguide] [Hour] [sundance2] [euronews] [ingrid] [body] [AP] [musical] [charloteweb] [laminated] [smi] [blue velvet] [ingrid2] [hopper] [voom] [webby] [kamen] [Jealousy '94] [Trésor] [praying mantis] [bee] [bedbug] [duck] [sundance-playlist] [katrillion-playlist] [poetry] [commercial] [gp] [AP-seduce] [lindex] [13 webby] [sex] [regis] [dolce] [nature] [fabio] [goat fiesta] [perfume] [babelgum] [webby gp] [uinterview] [95] [shadow] [niaf] [kimmel]
Sources / More info: wiki-ir, flickr, guardian-ir
