photo credit JOHN MILES

1998 14m col. 16mm writer/director commission BFI/C4

Edinburgh IFF TX C4 Film 4 BFI LOVE FILM

‘A Bunny Girl’s Tale is her proudest possession’

CAMERA NICK GORDON SMITH
EDITOR LUCIA ZUCCHETTI
MUSIC P J HARVEY
PRODUCER LAURA HASTINGS SMITH
CHOREOGRAPHY GABY AGIS

CAST KITTY BEAMISH
PJ HARVEY KATHLEEN BUSCOMBE EMILY SCOT JOANNE SCOTT

I thought do I want to work dressed as a rabbit but I wanted to travel.

A Bunny Girl’s Tale looks behind the image to the lives of the women who actually worked as Bunny Girl’s and at the bizarre phenomenon pf the Playboy club itself a microcosm of the law: supporting the bunny Matrix was a Bunny Manual and Mother.

To transgress the law was to fraternise with customers therby breaking the code

Please Sir you are not allowed to touch the bunnies

Speaking with these women including the original six named the Ambassadors to Britain

I noticed how important the tales were in making sense of their experiences whilst considering how women survive and engage with culture.

And then…