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An essay comparing this director’s works to Gothic architecture discusses a film in which a character who recites the Song of Songs is tracked by the swiveling camera on her way to a torture room. An early gay film by this director about the love between a master artist and his model starred a compatriot who directed a documentary about witch hunts, Häxan (15[1])(“HECK-san”). In a scene by this director, the room subtly (15[1])rotates along with the camera’s 360-degree pan, which captures a girl asking her possibly mad uncle to (*) resurrect her mother. A grating casts a cross-shaped shadow on the ground in a scene from a film by this director, which includes a close-up of tears streaking down the title character’s face as she wears a straw crown. This director of Ordet (-5[1])cast Renée Falconetti in a 1928 historical drama about the title saint. For 10 points, name this Danish director of The Passion of Joan of Arc. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Carl Theodor Dreyer (The first line refers to Schrader’s Transcendental Style in Film, and the film described is Day of Wrath.)
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