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 Collection6.12003HD
A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.
- 1982
Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929
Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-192961982HD
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1991
The Comb
The Comb6.71991HD
A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.
- 2021
VadeMecum
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VadeMecum is a new short produced by the Palme d’Or-nominated animators Stephen and Timothy Quay. The film shows the life and works of Polish...
- 2022
Ghosts and Whispers
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An unbroken sequence of fragments, last thoughts, elegies and absences by Schubert, Mozart, Wagner, Janáček, Stravinsky, Jacquet de la...
- 2009
Inventorium of Traces
Inventorium of Traces52009HD
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...
- 2011
Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers
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This short documentary documents the making of the film the Quay Brothers shot at, and on the subject of, the Mütter Museum of The College of...
- 2009
The Art of Time
The Art of Time02009HD
Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...
- 2009
The Bug Trainer
The Bug Trainer42009HD
The Bug Trainer explores Starewitch’s creative ideas and concepts of his work, along with opinions from film critics and other animation...
- 1983
Janáček: Intimate Excursions
Janáček: Intimate Excursions51983HD
Janacek: Intimate Excursions is a short experimental documentary that attempts to find visual references in the correspondence of Leos Janacek, the...
- 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.
- 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,...
- 2003
Songs for Dead Children
Songs for Dead Children52003HD
Another short, grainy film from the Quay Brothers. This one has funny singing in it.
- 2021
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem02021HD
To mark the centenary of the great science fiction writer, Stanislaw Lem, we present this tribute by the legendary stop motion animators Stephen and...
- 2005
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes6.32005HD
Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.
- 1980
The Falls
The Falls7.21980HD
The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios of 92 survivors.
- 2010
Maska
Maska72010HD
"Maska" is the latest animated film of Quay brothers, directors and puppet animators, with the music composed by Krzysztof Penderecki. The film is an...
- 2000
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...