Kansas Bowling
Biography
Kansas Bowling is an American director, writer, cinematographer and actor from California. She started making short films after receiving a Super 8 camera at 13. She directed B.C. Butcher (2016), with Lloyd Kaufman producing and Troma Entertainment handling distribution, and she became the first person Troma inducted into its Institute for Gifted Youth. She has directed more than 30 music videos, including a Death Valley Girls clip in which Iggy Pop eats a hamburger. As an actor, she played Sandra Good in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), appeared in Joe Begos's Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022), had a lead in the 2023 slasher films The Third Saturday in October Part V and Murdercise (2023), and starred in the biblical film Absolute Vow (2017). Her film Cuddly Toys (2022) is a shockumentary-style work about girlhood. She has also published two books.
30years old
Turns 31 on August 2in 294 days
- Born Beverly Hills
- Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 7 years2017 to 2024
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A first
Bowling was the first person inducted into the Troma Institute For Gifted Youth, and W Magazine listed her among 42 up-and-comers in its April 2016 "Next in Line" issue.
Behind the camera
Bowling directed a video for the Death Valley Girls song "Disaster (Is What We're After)", which Rolling Stone released on August 15, 2018. In it, Iggy Pop eats a hamburger for four minutes, a nod to Jørgen Leth's 1982 film 66 Scenes of America.
A first
Bowling filmed the only footage that exists of Willard, the papier-mache bird belonging to Richard Brautigan, for Kat Meoz's music video "Here I Wait". The bird was the subject of Brautigan's 1975 novel Willard and His Bowling Trophies.
Behind the camera
Bowling directed a video for the Death Valley Girls song "One Less Thing (Before I Die)", which Stereogum premiered on October 2, 2018. She also went to the home-made rocket launch of Mad Mike Hughes, a daredevil and limo driver, and filmed him launching into the sky.
Kansas Bowling movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Worked with
Kansas Bowling shares three films with Lloyd Kaufman, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Lloyd Kaufman's page
Parker Love Bowling's page
Michael Madsen's page
Steven Seagal's page
Bill Cobbs's page
Johnny Messner's page
All films by Joe Begos
All films by James Cullen Bressack
Angelica De AlbaDirector, 1 film, 2023
All films by Angelica De Alba
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