This guy, who was originally a magician stared making films. He devised many cinematographic techniques which allowed him to make a class of movies never heard of before. Who is he and tell us which class of movies he pioneered.

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Abid, Goyal, varuns88, akhi, udupendra, CKV, Tathagata Chatterjee, Rohan, BiGFooT, Dibyo, prasanth, svgreatest, Ashwin, duriel, priyananda, Atul Mathew, bobo, Ginkgo100, madhur, yaksha, srikar, Rey de Vaqueiros and Poornima