At the age of 19, Kansas Bowling wrote the script for Cuddly Toys that debuted internationally at the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival in Switzerland. Bowling describes her film as a cross between Bye Bye Birdie, Mondo Cane and Faces of Death.

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, 2021)

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, 2023)