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Stephen Quay

Stephen Quay

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.

On screen

  • The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
  • Quay
  • Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers
  • Inside The Institute
  • The Bug Trainer
  • The Art of Time
  • The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
  • The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
  • The Falls

Behind the camera

  • Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
  • Ghosts and Whispers
  • VadeMecum
  • 11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
  • The Doll's Breath
  • Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
  • Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
  • Maska
  • Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
  • Kinoteka Ident
  • Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
  • Eurydice: She, So Beloved
  • Alice in Not So Wonderland
  • The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
  • Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003
  • Songs for Dead Children
  • The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
  • Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
  • Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
  • In Absentia
  • The Sandman
  • The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993
  • Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
  • The Summit
  • Anamorphosis
  • Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
  • Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
  • Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
  • The Comb
  • The Calligrapher
  • Ex Voto
  • Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
  • Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
  • Rain Dance
  • Tales of the Brothers Quay
  • Street of Crocodiles
  • This Unnameable Little Broom
  • The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
  • The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
  • Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
  • The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
  • Nocturna Artificialia

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