Barnacle
Green Porno: Barnacle
2009
Synopsis
Isabella Rossellini takes a close look at the sex life of a Semibalanus balanoides, a barnacle. With a shapeless body stuck to a rock, the male barnacle needs to develop a long, long penis to reach inside a female barnacle.
Editorial
Rossellini’s haunting investigation of the porous self in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet finds a peculiar echo in the life cycle of this arthropod, with one creature quite literally dissolving into its mate. The star’s jokingly suggestive performance seems to ask: could this be the height of eroticism?
