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This filmmaker documented Manhattan’s Third Avenue El before it was demolished in his short The Wonder Ring. (-5[1])After this director met John Cage in New York, he used Cage’s music as the soundtrack for his first color film, titled In Between. (15[1])“existence is song” and Hell Spit Flexion are two sections of a film this director based on Dante’s Divine Comedy. Films by this director typically end with his trademark signature, which he (*) hand-scratched frame-by-frame. This filmmaker gathered grass and flower petals for a “collage film” (10[1])created without a camera. This director recorded (10[1])the birth of his first child for his film Window Water Baby Moving. For 10 points, identify this prolific experimental filmmaker, (10[1])who pasted the wings of dead insects directly onto celluloid for his work Mothlight. ■END■ (0[2])

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