Juliet Bashore
Juliet Bashore (born 31 December 1956) is an American filmmaker. She is known for her feature film "Kamikaze Hearts" (1986), a pseudo-documentary set in the Golden Age of Porn in San Francisco. Life. Bashore studied literature and film production at the University of California, Santa Cruz and received a Master's degree at the American Film Institute’s Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies. She has been nominated for a Guggenheim Fellowship. After her studies, Bashore worked as an assistant on George Csicsery’s film "Television, The Enchanted Mirror" (1981). She also worked as an associate  producer in San Francisco at Target Video, Video West and Optic Nerve. Her feature film, "Kamikaze Hearts", was released in 1986. It was based on the lives of two women lovers, Sharon Mitchell and Tigr Mennett, working in the pornography industry in San Francisco’s Golden Age. Bashore met Mennett while working as a crew member on a pornographic film. Jonathan Rosenbaum called the film "alternately distressing, instructive, contestable, and fascinating". In 1990 she made "The Battle of Tuntenhaus," a documentary film about the radical queer squat in Berlin. and in 1992 she made a film that followed the events  of the squat since the Battle of Mainzer Straße. The films became an important document about the autonomous scene in Berlin at the time. Her production company, Modern Cartoons, based in Venice, Los Angeles, was concentrated on the development of virtual reality hardware and software, and produced a number of groundbreaking works utilizing motion sensor technology including a series for PBS Television as well as a feature for Miramax Films.