Following her award-winning short film series, screen icon Isabella Rossellini has turned her passion for wildlife into a charming, hilarious and informative performance that explores the sex lives of creatures great and small.
Rossellini delivers her talk with wit and wonder, turning the secret lives of animals into a vivid narrative with no holds barred.
Rossellini philosophises about why sex appeal is condemned in humans, but not in plants, and questions why our language is limited such that it doesn’t easily represent all variations of sexuality. The lecture is interspersed with short, amusing film clips, in which Rossellini wears quirky costumes to portrays everything from a praying mantis to a dolphin.
‘Green Porno’ is wildly entertaining and valorises thinking outside of a heteronormative framework in a refreshing, irreverent way. Rossellini’s enthusiasm for the natural world and its sexual wonders is infectious, and definitely seasoned for queer audiences.
Isabella Rossellini’s ‘Green Porno’ played the Perth Concert Hall on Wednesday, March 19th and is currently on tour in Australia.
Claire Alexander
