Jesse E. Hobson
Jesse Edward Hobson( May 2, 1911 – November 5, 1970) was the director of SRI International from 1947 to 1955.
Prior to SRI, he was the director of the Armour Research Foundation.
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, musician, actor, and photographer.
He is best known for films such as "Eraserhead" (1977), "Blue Velvet" (1986) and "Mulholland Drive" (2001), often regarded by critics as among the best films of their respective decades, and for his successful 1990–91 television series "Twin Peaks", which led to him being labeled "the first popular Surrealist" by noted film critic Pauline Kael.
A recipient of an Academy Honorary Award in 2019, he has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and has won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival.
He has been described by "The Guardian" as "the most important director of this era", while AllMovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking".
Born to a middle-class family in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood traveling around the United States before he studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films.
He moved to Los Angeles, where he produced his first motion picture, the surrealist horror film "Eraserhead" (1977).
After "Eraserhead" became a success on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was employed to direct the biographical film "The Elephant Man" (1980), from which he gained mainstream success.
He was then employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group and proceeded to make two films: the science-fiction epic "Dune" (1984), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir mystery film "Blue Velvet" (1986), which stirred controversy over its violence but later grew in critical reputation.
Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the popular murder mystery entitled "Twin Peaks" (1990–1991).
He also created a cinematic prequel,  (1992), a road film "Wild at Heart" (1990) and a family film "The Straight Story" (1999) in the same period.
Turning further towards surrealist filmmaking, three of his subsequent films operated on dream logic non-linear narrative structures: "Lost Highway" (1997), "Mulholland Drive" (2001), and "Inland Empire" (2006).
Meanwhile, Lynch embraced the Internet as a medium, producing several web-based shows, such as the animated "DumbLand" (2002) and the surreal sitcom "Rabbits" (2002).
Lynch and Frost reunited for a third season of "Twin Peaks", airing in on Showtime in 2017.
Lynch co-wrote and directed every episode, as well as reprising his role as Gordon Cole.
Lynch's other artistic endeavours include: his work as a musician, encompassing three studio albums—"BlueBOB" (2001), "Crazy Clown Time" (2011) and "The Big Dream" (
2013)—as well as music and sound design for a variety of his films; painting and photography; writing three books—"Images" (1994), "Catching the Big Fish" (2006), and "Room to Dream" (2018); and directing several music videos and advertisements, including the Dior promotional film "Lady Blue Shanghai" (2006).
An avid practitioner of Transcendental Meditation (TM), Lynch founded the David Lynch Foundation in 2005, which sought to fund the teaching of TM in schools and has since widened its scope to other at-risk populations, including the homeless, veterans and refugees.
In 2019, he received an Academy Honorary Award; his first Oscar win.
Absurda
Absurda is a short film directed by David Lynch and shown at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
The film is approximately two and a half minutes long.
It employs dream-like imagery, with stationary visuals which show a theater and the screen on which nightmarish images are projected.
The film is part of the "To Each His Own Cinema" anthology.
Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein- Cohen( born March 3, 1981) is the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
S. N. Mathur
S.N. Mathur was the Director of the Indian Intelligence Bureau between September 1975 and February 1980.
He was also the Director General of Police in Punjab.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
Jason Moore (director)
Jason Moore( born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.
Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas( born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director.
He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.

Question: Where was the director of film Absurda born?
Answer: Missoula, Montana