Timothy Quay Movies
- 2015
Quay
Quay6.12015HD
In 2015, Christopher Nolan curated a selection of short films by the surrealist animators the Quay Brothers to be distributed as a touring 35mm...
- 1991
The Calligrapher
The Calligrapher6.41991HD
With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink,...
- 2005
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes6.12005HD
Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.
- 2011
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)6.32011HD
A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the...
- 1980
The Falls
The Falls7.11980HD
The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios of 92 survivors.
- 2015
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin62015HD
Guy Maddin, who has been nicknamed the Canadian David Lynch, is undoubtedly one of the last remaining Magi of cinema. Despite living in the middle of...
- 1986
Street of Crocodiles
Street of Crocodiles6.51986HD
A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.
- 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 Collection6.12003HD
A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.
- 1988
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet6.31988HD
A magnet moves on a floor. A moth beats against a window. A doll child watches the magnet; threads of metal filings gather around the magnet.
- 2019
The Doll's Breath
The Doll's Breath02019HD
Afraid of losing his wife, Horatio creates a replica he calls Hortensia. But things don't go as planned... Shot on 35mm and propelled by an...
- 2024
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass72024HD
A man journeys by rail to a nameless sanatorium where his father has recently died. Once there, time loses its linearity and he finds himself in a...
- 2022
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz02022HD
A short documentary on the life of Polish author Bruno Schulz by Stephen and Timothy Quay, who adapted his work for their 1986 animated film Street...
- 1989
Ex Voto
Ex Voto41989HD
An extremely obscure minute-long short by the Brothers Quay in 1989. Animation appears to be done in 'Cutout' style, is abstract and plotless - more...
- 1995
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life7.71995HD
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other...
- 2006
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"02006HD
An Interview with The Quay Brothers & Alan Passes April 2006 at Atelier Konick, London
- 1981
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode61981HD
Using the tricks of the Flemish playwright's own trade--puppetry, masks, and a Breughelesque sense of bizarre carnival, the collaborators succeeded...
- 2007
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Alice in Not So Wonderland5.72007HD
The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers.
- 1984
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer6.81984HD
In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff...
- 1993
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods61993HD
Near an extraordinary chair with many legs, a hand is visible gripping an edge. The hand is weathered, the fingers cracked and scarred. The end of a...
- 1987
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies6.61987HD
Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.