Stephen Quay Movies

2003
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
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A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.
2013
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
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In a realm beyond the senses, plants interact with surreal cinematography to chart the course of our character: an entity said to embody the life and...
1981
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
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Using the tricks of the Flemish playwright's own trade--puppetry, masks, and a Breughelesque sense of bizarre carnival, the collaborators succeeded...
2006
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
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An Interview with The Quay Brothers & Alan Passes April 2006 at Atelier Konick, London
1992
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
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Stop-motion animated short film with a white ball, a rabbit, and a girl, and a voice singing "Are We Still Married".
1986
Street of Crocodiles
Street of Crocodiles
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A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.
1982
Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929
Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929
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Igor: The Paris Years, one segment of a larger biographical program created for Channel 4 on the life and times of Igor Stravinsky, finds the...
1988
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
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Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.
2000
The Sandman
The Sandman
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One of several collaborative dance films by the Brothers Quay & (dancer, choreographer) William Tuckett. Little enough info around on line, but...
2021
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
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To mark the centenary of the great science fiction writer, Stanislaw Lem, we present this tribute by the legendary stop motion animators Stephen and...
1984
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
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The original 54-minute documentary, as broadcast by Channel Four on 20 June 1984, after which the animated links by the Quay Brothers were recompiled...
2001
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
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Tom Waits, the brothers Quay, and a dog door.
1991
The Comb
The Comb
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A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.
1981
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
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An unusual documentary from the Brothers Quay and Keith Griffiths about the history of the Punch and Judy puppet show.
2000
In Absentia
In Absentia
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A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on her...
2010
Inside The Institute
Inside The Institute
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Docimentary about the work of the Qway Brothers for their film Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
1988
Rain Dance
Rain Dance
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A farming family and their livestock dance during a much-needed downpour in this Quay Brothers short made for Sesame Street.
2010
Maska
Maska
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The movie is set in a technologically developed but, at the same time, feudal world. Beautiful Duenna was created in order to carry out certain...
2009
The Bug Trainer
The Bug Trainer
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The Bug Trainer explores Starewitch’s creative ideas and concepts of his work, along with opinions from film critics and other animation...
2017
The Music of Zdeněk Liška
The Music of Zdeněk Liška
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One of the best Czech composers of film soundtracks is often described as a genius of film scores. He was not afraid to experiment and the...