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
6.22003HD
A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.
1984
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
61984HD
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...
2009
The Art of Time
The Art of Time
02009HD
Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...
1993
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
6.11993HD
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...
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)
6.42011HD
A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the...
2003
Songs for Dead Children
Songs for Dead Children
5.22003HD
Inspired by Gustav Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder," made for the Tate Gallery, London, and has never been released. "There's something we did for the...
2009
Inventorium of Traces
Inventorium of Traces
52009HD
In the Renaissance castle of the Polish count - Jan Potocki - in Lancut, the modern traces of a past glory persevere and become visible again at the...
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...
2001
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
5.82001HD
Tom Waits, the brothers Quay, and a dog door.
2010
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
62010HD
A bird acts as an alchemist in an enchanted forest, selecting different kinds of wood to combine them in a parquet floor.
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
2000
In Absentia
In Absentia
6.52000HD
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...
1992
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
6.11992HD
Stop-motion animated short film with a white ball, a rabbit, and a girl, and a voice singing "Are We Still Married".
1988
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
6.61988HD
Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.
2021
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
62021HD
To mark the centenary of the great science fiction writer, Stanislaw Lem, we present this tribute by the legendary stop motion animators Stephen and...
2010
Inside The Institute
Inside The Institute
02010HD
Docimentary about the work of the Qway Brothers for their film Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
1993
Anamorphosis
Anamorphosis
6.61993HD
The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This...
1991
The Calligrapher
The Calligrapher
6.41991HD
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,...
1989
Ex Voto
Ex Voto
41989HD
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...
2013
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
6.12013HD
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...