Cuddly Toys w/ guest Kansas Bowling at Tinker Street Cinema
Cuddly Toys w/ guest Kansas Bowling
Featuring a LIVE Q&A by director Kansas Bowling!
NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART! 18+
Cuddly Toys is a mondo film about the horrors and joys of growing up as a young girl in America featuring over 100 actresses and shot entirely on 16mm film.
At the age of 19, Bowling wrote the script for Cuddly Toys that debuted internationally at the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival in Switzerland and shortly after stirred up debate at theaters in over 10 cities across the U.S.
“Cuddly Toys is an ambitious, satirical, and unconventional exploitation success in the vein of John Waters with influences ranging from the gritty, riot grrrl sensibilities of Sarah Jacobson to the tongue-in-cheek artistry of Andy Warhol’s Factory films disguised as a 1970s after-school special about the bizarre, the gory, and traumatic secrets behind the innocence of girlhood.” (Etheria)
"Cuddly Toys is not a feminist piece, but rather a think piece–a new mondo film to inform, invite debate, and to appropriately represent the flies that continuously buzz around the female gender.” (Tori Pope, A Cuddly Toys Companion Book, Far West Press)
“Her second feature has been described as a Faces of Death-style anti-real mondo, mixing rough documentary and pure, nasty fantasy, presenting it all in a weird-scientist-educational tone between medicine and threat.” (Ann Manov)
“Cuddly Toys is a reflection of mixed messaging and messy morals. There are two sides fighting over what’s the best response to this type of violence and it’s messy and confusing.” (Will Coviello, Gambit)
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NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART! 18+
Cuddly Toys is a mondo film about the horrors and joys of growing up as a young girl in America featuring over 100 actresses and shot entirely on 16mm film.
At the age of 19, Bowling wrote the script for Cuddly Toys that debuted internationally at the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival in Switzerland and shortly after stirred up debate at theaters in over 10 cities across the U.S.
“Cuddly Toys is an ambitious, satirical, and unconventional exploitation success in the vein of John Waters with influences ranging from the gritty, riot grrrl sensibilities of Sarah Jacobson to the tongue-in-cheek artistry of Andy Warhol’s Factory films disguised as a 1970s after-school special about the bizarre, the gory, and traumatic secrets behind the innocence of girlhood.” (Etheria)
"Cuddly Toys is not a feminist piece, but rather a think piece–a new mondo film to inform, invite debate, and to appropriately represent the flies that continuously buzz around the female gender.” (Tori Pope, A Cuddly Toys Companion Book, Far West Press)
“Her second feature has been described as a Faces of Death-style anti-real mondo, mixing rough documentary and pure, nasty fantasy, presenting it all in a weird-scientist-educational tone between medicine and threat.” (Ann Manov)
“Cuddly Toys is a reflection of mixed messaging and messy morals. There are two sides fighting over what’s the best response to this type of violence and it’s messy and confusing.” (Will Coviello, Gambit)
Featuring a LIVE Q&A by director Kansas Bowling!
NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART! 18+
Cuddly Toys is a mondo film about the horrors and joys of growing up as a young girl in America featuring over 100 actresses and shot entirely on 16mm film.
At the age of 19, Bowling wrote the script for Cuddly Toys that debuted internationally at the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival in Switzerland and shortly after stirred up debate at theaters in over 10 cities across the U.S.
“Cuddly Toys is an ambitious, satirical, and unconventional exploitation success in the vein of John Waters with influences ranging from the gritty, riot grrrl sensibilities of Sarah Jacobson to the tongue-in-cheek artistry of Andy Warhol’s Factory films disguised as a 1970s after-school special about the bizarre, the gory, and traumatic secrets behind the innocence of girlhood.” (Etheria)
"Cuddly Toys is not a feminist piece, but rather a think piece–a new mondo film to inform, invite debate, and to appropriately represent the flies that continuously buzz around the female gender.” (Tori Pope, A Cuddly Toys Companion Book, Far West Press)
“Her second feature has been described as a Faces of Death-style anti-real mondo, mixing rough documentary and pure, nasty fantasy, presenting it all in a weird-scientist-educational tone between medicine and threat.” (Ann Manov)
“Cuddly Toys is a reflection of mixed messaging and messy morals. There are two sides fighting over what’s the best response to this type of violence and it’s messy and confusing.” (Will Coviello, Gambit)
NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART! 18+
Cuddly Toys is a mondo film about the horrors and joys of growing up as a young girl in America featuring over 100 actresses and shot entirely on 16mm film.
At the age of 19, Bowling wrote the script for Cuddly Toys that debuted internationally at the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival in Switzerland and shortly after stirred up debate at theaters in over 10 cities across the U.S.
“Cuddly Toys is an ambitious, satirical, and unconventional exploitation success in the vein of John Waters with influences ranging from the gritty, riot grrrl sensibilities of Sarah Jacobson to the tongue-in-cheek artistry of Andy Warhol’s Factory films disguised as a 1970s after-school special about the bizarre, the gory, and traumatic secrets behind the innocence of girlhood.” (Etheria)
"Cuddly Toys is not a feminist piece, but rather a think piece–a new mondo film to inform, invite debate, and to appropriately represent the flies that continuously buzz around the female gender.” (Tori Pope, A Cuddly Toys Companion Book, Far West Press)
“Her second feature has been described as a Faces of Death-style anti-real mondo, mixing rough documentary and pure, nasty fantasy, presenting it all in a weird-scientist-educational tone between medicine and threat.” (Ann Manov)
“Cuddly Toys is a reflection of mixed messaging and messy morals. There are two sides fighting over what’s the best response to this type of violence and it’s messy and confusing.” (Will Coviello, Gambit)
Cuddly Toys w/ guest Kansas Bowling
Featuring a LIVE Q&A by director Kansas Bowling!
NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART! 18+
Cuddly Toys is a mondo film about the horrors and joys of growing up as a young girl in America featuring over 100 actresses and shot entirely on 16mm film.
At the age of 19, Bowling wrote the script for Cuddly Toys that debuted internationally at the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival in Switzerland and shortly after stirred up debate at theaters in over 10 cities across the U.S.
“Cuddly Toys is an ambitious, satirical, and unconventional exploitation success in the vein of John Waters with influences ranging from the gritty, riot grrrl sensibilities of Sarah Jacobson to the tongue-in-cheek artistry of Andy Warhol’s Factory films disguised as a 1970s after-school special about the bizarre, the gory, and traumatic secrets behind the innocence of girlhood.” (Etheria)
"Cuddly Toys is not a feminist piece, but rather a think piece–a new mondo film to inform, invite debate, and to appropriately represent the flies that continuously buzz around the female gender.” (Tori Pope, A Cuddly Toys Companion Book, Far West Press)
“Her second feature has been described as a Faces of Death-style anti-real mondo, mixing rough documentary and pure, nasty fantasy, presenting it all in a weird-scientist-educational tone between medicine and threat.” (Ann Manov)
“Cuddly Toys is a reflection of mixed messaging and messy morals. There are two sides fighting over what’s the best response to this type of violence and it’s messy and confusing.” (Will Coviello, Gambit)
