Juliet Bashore (born 31 December 1956) is an American filmmaker. She is best known for her award-winning feature film '' Kamikaze Hearts'' (1986), a

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set in the

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Life

Bashore studied English literature and film at the

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and received a Master's degree in directing 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 intern on

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’s film ''Television, The Enchanted Mirror'' (1981). She also worked as a producer and associate producer in San Francisco at

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, Videowest and video collective Optic Nerve. Her film ''Kamikaze Hearts'' was shot in 1983 and released in 1986. It was based on the lives of two women lovers,

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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.

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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 Tuntenhaus in (then) East Berlin and its conflict with both Neo-Nazis and the German state. In 1992 she made a film that followed the events of the squat since the

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. The films became an important document about the autonomous scene in Berlin at the time. Her production company, Modern Cartoons, based in

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, was concentrated on the development of

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hardware and software, and produced a number of groundbreaking works utilizing

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technology including in 1998 the first virtual character (a cartoon doll based on

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) to appear live in real-time before a television audience, followed by a series for

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, as well as a feature for

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Filmography

* '' Kamikaze Hearts'' (1986) * '' The Battle of Tuntenhaus, Part 1'' (1990) * '' The Battle of Tuntenhaus, Part 2'' (1992) * ''The Nervous Breakdown of Philip K. Dick'' (1996, as “Judy Bee”) *'' The Seller'' (1998, associate producer)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bashore, Juliet American women film directors Living people LGBT film directors 1956 births 21st-century American women 20th-century American women