Stephen Quay
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Directing · Born 1947-06-17 · age 79 · Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
Stephen Quay was born in 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied illustration at the Philadelphia College of Art and later continued his education at the Royal College of Art in London, where he met his twin brother Timothy and began collaborating in animation. Together, they founded Atelier Koninck and produced their first experimental short films in the late 1970s. Throughout his career, Stephen has directed and co-directed short films, feature films, and stop-motion projects, including Nocturna Artificialia (1979), Street of Crocodiles (1986), Institute Benjamenta (1995), and The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005). His work is characterized by dreamlike, detailed, and symbolic worlds, often using dolls and carefully crafted objects to create surreal and unsettling atmospheres.
Titles
Street of Crocodiles
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
The Falls
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
The Comb
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
In Absentia
This Unnameable Little Broom
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Anamorphosis
Nocturna Artificialia
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
The Calligrapher
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Maska
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Tales of the Brothers Quay
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929
Janáček: Intimate Excursions
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Songs for Dead Children
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
The Sandman
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
The Summit
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
Inventorium of Traces
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
A Fratricide
VadeMecum
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz
The Doll's Breath
The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993
Rain Dance
Ex Voto
Inside The Institute
The Art of Time
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
Ghosts and Whispers
Kinoteka Ident