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Director of
B.C. Butcher and
W Magazine 2016
"People to Watch" Selection
19 Year Old Kansas Bowling
Premieres New Music Video Today,
Presented by the Troma Institute for Gifted Youth
Kansas Bowling, director of Troma's new cave-girl slasher movie directed "Post-Teenage Angst" by Kill My Coquette
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New Yo
rk, New York. April 19, 2015.
-Greetings from Tromaville!
First inductee into the Troma Institute for Gifted Youth, 19 year old Kansas Bowling, has just released a music video for Los Angeles female fronted rock-n-roll band
Kill My Coquette. The song, "Post-Teenage Angst" is the 5th track on the debut EP for
Kill My Coquette. The music video is will premiere on the Troma Movies YouTube channel, it was announced today by Lloyd Kaufman, president of Troma Entertainment and creator of
The Toxic Avenger.
Conceptually
Ms. Bowling's video is both an informed and original stylistic mix of 90's riot-grrl
rebellion and irony, as a parade of pageant contestants showcase disturbing gags delivered with a cheesecake burlesque flare. Further, Kansas continues to reference her inspirations, as she did in her with a surprise ending that confidently asserts which cult horror heroes and heroines she encountered very early on.
Kill My Coquette released the debut self-titled album that includes "Post-Teenage Angst"
in 2015. Based in Hollywood, California, the band is fronted by Natalie Denise Sperl and has played shows with Ramone's legend, Richie Ramone and the band cites and mention musical inspiration from bands like Social Distortion, The Velvet Undergound and Hole.
Already at the forefront of the cutting edge filmmakers of her generation, Kansas Bowling has been featured as "The New Guard" among her generation in "W" Magazine in the April 2016 issue, among other young people to watch including Willow Smith and Zendaya. Her directorial debut movie, B.C. Butcher, was released in January on Troma Now, Troma Entertainment's online video streaming on demand service, available for only $4.99. The Kill My Coquette music video is streaming on Troma Movies YouTube here.
Kill My Coquette, pictured above and KROQ DJ Rodney Bingenheimer
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New Yo
rk, New York. April 19, 2015.
-Greetings from Tromaville!
First inductee into the Troma Institute for Gifted Youth, 19 year old Kansas Bowling, has just released a music video for Los Angeles female fronted rock-n-roll band
Kill My Coquette. The song, "Post-Teenage Angst" is the 5th track on the debut EP for
Kill My Coquette. The music video is now available on the Troma Movies YouTube channel, it was announced today by Lloyd Kaufman, president of Troma Entertainment and creator of
The Toxic Avenger.
Conceptually Ms. Bowling's video is both an informed and original stylistic mix of 90's riot grrl
coupled with disturbing gags delivered with a cheesecake burlesque flare. Kansas continues to reference her inspirations with a surprise ending that confidently asserts which cult horror heroes and heroines she encountered very early on.
as welcomed their second inductee, 18 year old Dylan Mars Greenberg, into their honorable institution alongside 19 year old Kansas Bowling (director of BC Butcher), it was announced today by Lloyd Kaufman, prexy of Troma Entertainment and creator of "T
he Toxic Avenger". The induction marks the release of the already experienced director Greenberg's newest release, music video for Matt Ellin's, "Hey, Shut Up".
Matt Ellin's recent release of his EP, "Hey Nice" includes the track, "Hey, Shut Up" the inspiration song for Greenberg's
newest music video release
Dylan Mars Greenberg got an early foothold into the art world; by the time she was 15 she was performing in East Village clubs and dive bars, releasing a full length synth pop album as "Disck" and ending up with a photo spread in NY Times Magazine. When she was 17, she directed her first feature film "Glamarus', produced by veteran art film director and actor Scott Shaw. She followed this with her art-horror film Wakers and then almost immediately began production on another film called Dark Prism, which ended up generating massive press attention in Pitchfork, NME, Flavorwire, SPIN. and the AV Club. Greenberg's style has been compared to Andy Warhol's factory, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and David Lynch. She has worked with major figures in the entertainment industry such as Mac DeMarco, Matt Katz-Bohen, and Jacob Reynolds, underground art icons like Lloyd Kaufman, Reverend Jen, and Robert Prichard, and up and coming young people such as Sofe Cote, Blessing C.S., Sara Kaiser, Chandani Smith, and Max Husten. Critics have called the films of Greenberg everything from brilliant and nightmarish to awful and headache inducing. Regardless, Greenberg continues to be one of the most prolific young filmmakers in New York City.
Today's release of another magnanimous project, a music video she directed for fellow prodigy, 16 year old singer/songwriter Matt Ellin called,
"
Hey, Shut Up",
is
available now on
Troma Movies
YouTube Channel
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Matt Ellin is truly the real thing - at age 16 he is already an incredibly prolific musician with a growing following. His oddball and sometimes even unsettling charm are displayed for listeners in his first EP, "hey nice" containing 7 pieces of music, including his underground hit single: "Hey, Shut Up" and his song "it's easy to be (a pylon like me)" which was featured in the studio feature film "Dark Prism".
Dylan's video for, "Hey, Shut Up"calls on a nightmarish hallucinatory experience that is in part influenced by a fondness for the Tromatic sense of the grotesque without losing her unique and eerie style. Bizarre images, deployed with carefully crafted editing, juxtapose the seemingly sweet but mysterious vibe within the song. The collaboration between Greenberg and Ellin can be seen on Troma Movies YouTube, and the "Troma Institute for Gifted Youth" continues to uphold the highest standards for young filmmakers with its second inductee.
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At just 18 years old Dylan Mars Greenberg (above) has directed three feature length films.
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Established in 1974 by Yale friends Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, Troma Entertainment is arguably the longest-running independent movie studio in North America, and it's one of the very few genuine brand names in the industry. World famous for movie classics like Kaufman's "The Toxic Avenger", Trey Parker's "Cannibal, the Musical", "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead", "Class of Nuke 'em High", Charles Kaufman's "Mother's Day" and "Tromeo & Juliet", Troma's seminal films are now being remade as big-budget mainstream productions by the likes of Brett Ratner, Richard Saperstein, Akiva Goldsman and Steven Pink. Early work of many of today's luminaries can be found in Troma's library of 1000 films, cartoons, TV shows and shorts. Jenna Fischer, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Costner, Fergie, Vincent D'Onofrio, Samuel L. Jackson, James Gunn and Eli Roth are just a few. Troma's latest in house productions are "Return to Nuke 'Em High: Volumes 1 & 2". Troma's Blu-rays, DVDs, books, t-shirts and movie merchandise can be purchased at Tromashop. Please visit Troma at
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