Sundance 2008 has come and gone with the usual flurry of much-hyped films and big-money deals. Somehow overlooked on the various top ten lists for the festival was Isabella Rossellini’s unique contribution: insect porn.

Entitled Green Porno, the collection consists of a series of shorts that look like a demented, X-rated version of a Saturday morning kid’s TV show. Isabella looks into the camera and says something like, “If I were a dragonfly, I would have compound eyes…” and her eyes are promptly capped by two multifaceted thingummies. After she transforms into whatever creature is under discussion, the films get racier and a whole lot more surreal, with comments like, “As a lady firefly, I would buzz about in the evening, lighting up the sky with my luminous ass.” Before long a willing partner appears, and Ms. Rossellini is showing you exactly how dragonflies or whatever do the nasty. “I would clean her vagina to make sure she would only have my babies…” (For extra kinkiness, Isabella always plays the male partner.)

The three films shown at Sundance featured dragonflies, fireflies, and spiders as Bugs Gone Wild. Audiences seemed to get off on them (in a manner of speaking, hopefully), and the Sundance Channel has commisioned five more that will let audiences get real closely acquainted with bees, praying mantises, worms, snails and flies. Isabella deserves credit for coming up with a genuinely novel take on the wildlife film, not to mention being one of the very, very few people to create a new sexual fetish. Like furries, only without the fur. And with a lot more slime.