Question: Are both director of film In A Lotus Garden and director of film Puce Moment from the same country?

Working exclusively in short films, he has produced almost forty works since 1937, nine of which have been grouped together as the" Magick Lantern Cycle". His films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing" elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle". Anger himself has been described as" one of America's first openly gay filmmakers, and certainly the first whose work addressed homosexuality in an undisguised, self- implicating manner", and his" role in rendering gay culture visible within American cinema, commercial or otherwise, is impossible to overestimate", with several being released prior to the legalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults in the United States. He has also focused upon occult themes in many of his films, being fascinated by the English gnostic mage and poet Aleister Crowley, and is an adherent of Thelema, the religion Crowley founded. Born to a middle- class family in Santa Monica, California, Anger would later claim to have been a child actor who appeared in the film" A Midsummer Night's Dream"( 1935); the accuracy of this claim has come under dispute. He began making short films when he was ten years old, although his first film to gain any recognition, the homoerotic" Fireworks"( 1947), would only be produced a decade later. The controversial nature of the work led to him being put on trial on obscenity charges, but he was acquitted. A friendship and working relationship began subsequently with pioneering sexologist Alfred Kinsey. Moving to Europe, Anger produced a number of other shorts inspired by the artistic avant- garde scene on the continent, such as" Rabbit's Moon"( released 1970) and" Eaux d' Artifice"( 1953). Returning to the United States in 1953, he set about working on several new projects, including the films" Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome"( 1954)," Scorpio Rising"( 1964)," Kustom Kar Kommandos"( 1965), and the gossip book" Hollywood Babylon"( 1965). The latter would become infamous for its many dubious and sensationalist claims, many of which were later disproven, though some do remain as urban legends. Getting to know several notable countercultural figures of the time, including Tennessee Williams, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Marianne Faithfull and Anton LaVey, Anger involved them in his subsequent Thelemite- themed works," Invocation of My Demon Brother"( 1969) and" Lucifer Rising"( 1972). Following his failure to produce a sequel to" Lucifer Rising", which he attempted through the mid-1980s, Anger retired from filmmaking, instead focusing on" Hollywood Babylon II"( 1984). At the dawn of the 21st century he once more returned to filmmaking, producing shorts for various film festivals and events. Anger has described filmmakers such as Auguste and Louis Lumière, Georges Méliès, and Maya Deren as influences, and has been cited as an important influence on later film directors like Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and John Waters. He has also been described as having" a profound impact on the work of many other filmmakers and artists, as well as on music video as an emergent art form using dream sequence, dance, fantasy, and narrative". Kenneth Anger( born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer, February 3, 1927) is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author. <SEP> In a Lotus Garden is a 1931 British musical film directed by Fred Paul and starring Roy Galloway, Jocelyn Yeo and H. Agar Lyons. It was made at Isleworth Studios as a quota quickie. The film's sets were designed by Norman G. Arnold. <SEP> Filmed in 1949," Puce Moment" resulted from the unfinished short film" Puce Women". The film opens with a camera watching 1920s- style flapper gowns being taken off a dress rack. The dresses are removed and danced off the rack to music. A long- lashed woman, Yvonne Marquis, dresses in the purple puce gown and walks to her vanity to apply perfume. Puce Moment is a short 6- minute film by Kenneth Anger. She lies on a chaise longue which then begins to move around the room and eventually out to a patio. Borzois appear and she prepares to take them for a walk. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television. <SEP> Paul was born in Lausanne in 1880 but moved to Britain at a young age. Fred Paul( 1880 – 1967) was a Swiss- born British actor and film director. He was a prolific actor and director in the 1910s and 1920s, but his career dramatically declined with the arrival of sound films.