Stephen Quay Movies

Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...

The Bug Trainer explores Starewitch’s creative ideas and concepts of his work, along with opinions from film critics and other animation...

Tom Waits, the brothers Quay, and a dog door.

The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers.

Stop-motion animated short film with a white ball, a rabbit, and a girl, and a voice singing "Are We Still Married".

One of the best Czech composers of film soundtracks is often described as a genius of film scores. He was not afraid to experiment and the...

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...

A man murders his brother in a crime of jealous passion. An adaptation of Franz Kafka's short story of the same name.

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...

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...

Another short, grainy film from the Quay Brothers. This one has funny singing in it.

A bird acts as an alchemist in an enchanted forest, selecting different kinds of wood to combine them in a parquet floor.

Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.

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,...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Enigmatic, stop-motion, animated story of a man's day.

Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.