Kate Jessop’s ‘The Secret Lives of Lesbians Cats’: Watch Now for Pride Month
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What do cats really think of their lesbian owners? All is revealed in new sketch comedy episode of adult animation comedy web series Planet Pussy Willow. A development from writer-animation director Kate Jessop’s multi award winning original series Tales From Pussy Willow, the series works with cultural commentary through mixed media live action/animation montage.
Planet Pussy Willow works with satirising the dominant cultures in white heteronormative society. It holds a mirror up to society using sci-fi as a cultural commentary device. It broadly sits within the feminist sci-fi, adult animation and sketch comedy genres.
Animation director Kate Jessop uses real life experiences to create absurd situations, including ‘Smile’, in which male builders become feminist allies, to the press conference in ‘Astronaut’, where the first person to visit Mars is asked if she missed her boyfriend.
Using her trademark technique of combining animated cut outs with live actors filmed against a green screen, Jessop draws us into the fictional planet of Pussy Willow to celebrate queer, feminist and absurdist themes. It is a hilarious portrait of contemporary life that cuts close to the bone.
In it’s former format Tales From Pussy Willow, the series was selected for the Berlinale Talent Lab for development in the project lab and picked up distribution deals with REVRY, Twisted Mirror and QueerBee and has various awards including Best Comedy and LGBTQ series at the London Short Series Festival, Best Low Budget at the London Short Film festival and Best Animation at the Gilbert Baker Film Festival and Womens Worldwide Film Festivals.
I like writing comedy as a way of processing the world. Although the series is funny, it also addresses serious issues such as misogyny and catcalling. I’d like to think I’m holding a mirror up to society and calling people out. I’m constantly amazed at how many people say ‘This has happened to me!’
Kate Jessop
Catch up on past episodes for free at www.planetpussywillow.com