Get your green on
by Jo-ann Hodgson in At home on 08.04.08
As we all know, sex sells. And there’s nothing more natural than the act of love-making, creating the beast with two backs, horizontal jogging, or whatever you want to call it. So encouraging sex and eco-friendly causes to cosy-up seems an obvious but inspired bit of match-making.
Doing just this, director, actress and environmental activist Isabella Rossellini is soon to launch an eight-part short film series about the sex lives of insects, using a range of inventive costumes and colourful sets to arouse our curiosity.
The green sex shorts (not a new range of fetish clothing) will debut at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival and will also launch on a special Sundance Channel mini site and Helio’s mobile service on 5 May.
Norwegian environmental organization FFF – we’ll let you guess what the Fs stand for – picks up the eco-porn idea and runs with it, raising money for rainforest protection by producing pornographic videos set in the great outdoors and often featuring vegetables in, ahem, starring roles.
Despite being shunned by more mainstream organisations such as the World Wildlife Fund – which may have something to do with the time two FFF members swapped their audience of trees for wide-eyed music lovers and had sex on stage at a Norwegian festival – the organisation is now working directly with indigenous communities in Costa Rica and the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest.
So what have we learnt here? Well, nature is sexy; as this collection of objects that have grown into rude and amusing shapes confirms.
IMAGE by Flickr user lunchtimemama
doing what the birds & bees do is probably one of the few least environmentally destructive activities humans engage (!) in….
09.04.2008 at 11:09 am