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An essay by this filmmaker proclaims the camera as the “most paradoxical of all machines,” since it can be “at once active and passive,” and describes photography as an “art” of the “controlled accident.” A film by this director quickly cuts between a character crawling through dense brush, on a dinner table towards the Immortal Game on a chess board, and up an uprooted tree on a beach. In a film by this director, a thrown knife appears to shatter a shot of a man’s face, producing shards that fall into waves in the ocean. After editing Katherine Dunham’s thesis, this director violated the terms of a Guggenheim fellowship to participate in and film the dance of (*) Haitian Vodouists. A hooded figure looks backward to reveal that its face is a mirror, after which the protagonist watches herself (10[1])chase it from a window, (10[1])in a 1943 short film this (10[1])director made with her then-husband Alexander Hammid. For 10 points, name this director of At Land and Meshes of the Afternoon. ■END■

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