Kansas Bowling
Kansas Bowling is an American film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and actress. She is best known for directing B.C. Butcher.
Early life
Bowling was born and raised in Hollywood, California. At age 13, she received a Super 8 film camera as a Christmas gift and immediately started shooting short films with her sister.Career
Kansas Bowling is currently in production on her second feature film.''B.C. Butcher''
Bowling directed B.C. Butcher starring Kato Kaelin, Rodney Bingenheimer, Natasha Halevi, and Kadeem Hardison. The film was produced by Lloyd Kaufman and distributed by Troma Entertainment on their streaming service Troma Now on VHX.The movie had its theatrical premiere on March 3, 2016 at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California. Premiere attendees included Priscilla Presley, Catherine Deneuve, Lloyd Kaufman, Kato Kaelin, Rodney Bingenheimer, Mark Torgl, Harvey Kubernik, Clem Burke, Bebe Dupree, Jon Gries, Kathleen Hughes, Count Smokula, Natasha Blasick, and Ron Jeremy.
Bowling was the first inductee into the Troma Institute For Gifted Youth and listed as one of W Magazine's 42 up-and-comers in their April 2016 "Next in Line" issue.
Bowling has stated that B.C. Butcher is inspired by The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Switchblade Sisters, Raquel Welch, Doris Wishman, and Joey Ramone. Critics have described B.C. Butcher as a "feminist slasher movie and "reminiscent of AIP beach party films."
Music videos
Bowling has directed over 20 music videos for various artists.In the music video for Kat Meoz's "Here I Wait", Bowling shot the only existing footage of Richard Brautigan's papier-mâché bird Willard who was the subject of his 1975 novel Willard and His Bowling Trophies.
On April 13, 2018, German band Drangsal released a "controversial" video for their song "Magst Du Mich" directed by and starring Bowling and her sister Parker Love Bowling referencing pizzagate conspiracy theories and acting as "Hillary Clinton's sex slaves". The video is on regular rotation on European television.
On August 15, 2018, Rolling Stone released a video Bowling directed for the Death Valley Girls' song "Disaster ". The video is four minutes of musician Iggy Pop eating a hamburger. The video is an homage to Jørgen Leth’s 1982 film 66 Scenes of America, where Andy Warhol eats a hamburger. Yahoo Entertainment named it one of their favorite videos of the year.
October 2nd 2018, Stereogum premiered another video Bowling directed for the Death Valley Girls for their song “One Less Thing ”. Bowling attended the home-made rocket launch for the daredevil and limo driver Mad Mike Hughes and filmed his successful attempt at launching in the sky. Included in the video is footage from Noize TV of Mad Mike Hughes kissing Bowling after being put on a stretcher and loaded into an ambulance.
Galore Magazine - a magazine targeted to the "modern girl" - premiered a video October 26 2018 Bowling directed for the band Collapsing Scenery's song "Resort Beyond the Last Resort". The video is based on Boyd Rice's 1994 pro-rape manifesto "Revolt Against Penis Envy" which appeared in the controversial Answer Me! magazine. The video reverses the narrative of the essay and has Rice getting raped by a woman. In an interview with Galore, Bowling explains how she got in touch with Rice through the Partridge Family Temple and how the video was shot in Denver at Rice's house and at Casa Bonita. Galore compared the video to Rihanna.
Acting
In 2017, Bowling acted in a short film series directed by Leah Rachel and produced by Sky Ferreira called "Curious Females". Bowling played an aspiring porn actress named Tara. "Curious Females" premiered on Refinery29.Bowling and her sister Parker Love Bowling starred in Jared Master's biblical period film "Absolute Vow" alongside Aki Aleong. The film was deemed controversial for mixing exploitive themes with religion.
June 22nd, 2017, Bowling appeared on season 2; episode 3 of the Viceland show Party Legends directed by Lance Bangs. Kansas' segment "Swat Team Believer" is about a time she went to a Monkees concert and after meeting Mike Nesmith accidentally gets caught in a SWAT shoot-out. The episode is titled "Breaking Bad Vibes" and also features Theophilus London, Derek Waters, Nikki Glaser, and Duncan Trussell.
In 2018, Bowling produced and acted in the short film "Swamp Women Kissing Booth" which went on to be nominated in both the Austin Spotlight Film Festival and the Los Angeles CineFest. "Swamp Women Kissing Booth" was the first film to feature actress Kathleen Hughes, star of It Came From Outer Space, in a starring role since 1958.
In 2019 she portrayed Sandra Good, a member of the Manson family, in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and she appeared in Glenn Danzig's Verotika as well.
In early 2020, The Killers released a music video for their first single "Caution" off their new album Imploding the Mirage starring Bowling and Griffin Dunne.
Personal life
Bowling lives in Los Angeles, California.She is the older sister of actress Parker Love Bowling.
Filmography
Film| Year | Title | Writer | Director | Actor | Producer | Role |
| 2003 | Klepto | Nick's daughter | ||||
| 2016 | B.C. Butcher | Model | ||||
| 2016 | The Bridemaker | Bride | ||||
| 2016 | How the Wrong Brothers Saved Christmas | Antonia | ||||
| 2017 | Absolute Vow | Bithiah | ||||
| 2017 | Curious Females | Tara | ||||
| 2017 | Ghostroads - A Japanese Rock N Roll Ghost Story | Radio Engineer | ||||
| 2018 | What We Leave Behind | Emma | ||||
| 2018 | Swamp Women Kissing Booth | Sissy | ||||
| 2018 | ' | Nancy the Demon Cheerleader | ||||
| 2018 | Primitiva | Katrina | ||||
| 2019 | Once Upon A Time In Hollywood | Sandra "Blue" Good | ||||
| 2019 | Untitled Kansas Bowling Film | Professor |
Television
| Year | Title | Episode | Writer | Director | Actor |
| 2017 | Party Legends | “Breaking Bad Vibes” | |||
| 2018 | Adi Shankar's Gods and Secrets | TBA |
Music videos'
| Year | Song | Artist | Credit |
| 2014 | "So Long" | Alyeska | Director |
| 2015 | "You Needed to Know" | CTZNSHP | Director |
| 2016 | "Post Teenage Angst" | Kill My Coquette | Director |
| 2016 | "Disco" | Death Valley Girls | Director |
| 2016 | "Bloom" | Papa M | Director |
| 2017 | "Spin Spin" | Tilli | Director |
| 2017 | "Flesh Flower Dream" | Tilli | Director |
| 2017 | "Always" | The Fontaines | Director |
| 2017 | "Dd" | Taffy | Director |
| 2017 | "Forever Blue" | The Moonkids | Director |
| 2017 | "L.A. Don't Love You" | Kat Meoz | Director |
| 2017 | "Murkiii" | Taffy | Director |
| 2017 | "Never Slow Down" | Livingmore | Director |
| 2017 | "The Jester" | Silas Nello | Director |
| 2017 | "Christmas in Hollywood" | Kat Meoz | Director |
| 2018 | "Disaster " | Death Valley Girls | Director |
| 2018 | "The Resort Beyond the Last Resort" | Collapsing Scenery | Director |
| 2018 | "Burn Down the Cornfield" | Collapsing Scenery | Director |
| 2018 | "Modern World" | Collapsing Scenery | Director |
| 2018 | "Here I Wait" | Kat Meoz | Director |
| 2018 | "Magst Du Mich" | Drangsal | Director |
| 2018 | " Before I Die" | Death Valley Girls | Director |
| 2018 | "Trashworld" | Surfbort | Director |
| 2018 | "Diamond Nights" | Lauren Rocket | Director |
| 2019 | "Falling" | CRX | Director |
| 2019 | "Get Close" | CRX | Director |
| 2019 | "The Bold One" | Kristeen Young'' | Director |