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This filmmaker documented Manhattan’s Third Avenue El before it was demolished in his short The Wonder Ring. 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. “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” 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, who pasted the wings of dead insects directly onto celluloid for his work Mothlight. ■END■

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