Question: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was directed by the painted and photographer of what nationality?

full_context: Document 1: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Lynn Anderson album): Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is the name of a studio album by country music legend Lynn Anderson released in 1980.
Document 2: Tom Robbins: Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins (born July 22, 1932) is an American novelist. His best-selling novels are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy-drama"), often wildly poetic stories with a strong social and philosophical undercurrent, an irreverent bent, and scenes extrapolated from carefully researched bizarre facts. His novel "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" was made into a movie in 1993 by Gus Van Sant and stars Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, and Keanu Reeves.
Document 3: David Lynch: David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American director, screenwriter, producer, painter, musician, actor, and photographer. He has been described by "The Guardian" as "the most important director of this era". AllMovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking", while the success of his films has led to him being labelled "the first popular Surrealist".
Document 4: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (novel): Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a 1976 novel by Tom Robbins.
Document 5: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (John Cale album): Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is the third live album by Welsh musician John Cale. It was originally released on LP in 1986 and then later reissued on cassette in 1987 with a different cover and drastically altered track listing. In 1991 it was reissued on CD with a third cover design, but with contents identical to the cassette edition. It was recorded in CBGB club in New York between 1978 and 1979 with three former members of Patti Smith Group, bassist Ivan Kral, keyboardist Bruce Brody and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty. The LP version contains different track listing than CD.
Document 6: Gordon Quinn: Gordon Quinn is Artistic Director and founding member of Kartemquin Films and a 2007 recipient of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Gordon Quinn has been making documentaries for over 45 years and has produced or directed over 30 films. His recent directing credits include "Prisoner of Her Past" and "A Good Man". His producing credits include the films "Hoop Dreams"; "In the Family";"Vietnam, Long Time Coming"; "Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes"; "5 Girls"; "Refrigerator Mothers"; and "Stevie". Most recently, Gordon executive produced "" and "The New Americans", for which he directed the Palestinian segment. Currently, he is executive producing several new films for Kartemquin.
Document 7: Drugstore Cowboy: Drugstore Cowboy is a 1989 American crime drama film directed by the American filmmaker Gus Van Sant. Written by Van Sant and Daniel Yost, and based on an autobiographical novel by James Fogle, the film stars Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham and William S. Burroughs. It was Van Sant's second film as director.
Document 8: Gus Van Sant: Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician and author who has earned acclaim as both an independent and more mainstream filmmaker. His films typically deal with themes of marginalized subcultures, in particular homosexuality; as such, Van Sant is considered one of the most prominent auteurs of the New Queer Cinema movement.
Document 9: Blue Kentucky Girl (Emmylou Harris album): Blue Kentucky Girl is an album by country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in 1979. The album features delving more traditional country than the country-rock sound of Harris' previous releases. Songs include work by Willie Nelson and Gram Parsons. Rodney Crowell's "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" featured harmonies by Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt, and came out of the women's ill-fated 1978 recording sessions, where they first attempted to record a "trio" album (nearly a full decade before they actually succeeded in doing so).
Document 10: Jonas Mekas: Jonas Mekas (] ; born December 24, 1922) is a Lithuanian American filmmaker, poet and artist who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals worldwide.
Document 11: John Greyson: John Greyson (born March 13, 1960) is a Canadian director, writer, video artist, producer and political activist, whose work frequently deals with gay themes. Greyson is also a professor at York University's film school, where he teaches film and video theory, film production and editing.
Document 12: Harris Savides: Harris Savides (September 28, 1957 – October 9, 2012) was an American cinematographer. Notable films include Gus Van Sant's "young death" trilogy ("Gerry", "Elephant", and "Last Days"), and the Van Sant films "Milk", "Finding Forrester", and "Restless"; David Fincher's "The Game", "Zodiac", and the opening title sequence in "Seven"; Martin Scorsese's short film "The Key to Reserva"; Wong Kar Wai's short film "The Follow"; Ridley Scott's "American Gangster"; Woody Allen's "Whatever Works"; Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere" and "The Bling Ring"; Noah Baumbach's "Greenberg" and "Margot at the Wedding"; and John Turturro's "Illuminata".
Document 13: Gerry (2002 film): Gerry is a 2002 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, who also co-wrote the film with Van Sant. It is the first film of Van Sant's "Death Trilogy", three films based on deaths that occurred in real life, and is succeeded by "Elephant" (2003) and "Last Days" (2005).
Document 14: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (film): Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a 1993 American romantic comedy-drama film based on Tom Robbins' 1976 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Gus Van Sant (credited as Gus Van Sant, Jr.) and starred an ensemble cast led by Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, Angie Dickinson, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Keanu Reeves, John Hurt, and Rain Phoenix. Robbins himself was the narrator. The soundtrack was sung entirely by k.d. lang. The film was dedicated to the late River Phoenix.
Document 15: Lifted by Love: "Lifted by Love" is a 1993 single performed by k.d. lang. The single was written by lang along with Ben Mink. "Lifted by Love was included in soundtrack album of the film, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. The single was k.d. lang's first of two number ones on the US dance chart. "Lifted by Love" remained on the dance charts for a total thirteen weeks, but did not make any other chart.
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