Timothy Quay Movies
- 2015

The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
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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...
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- 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...
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- 2009

The Art of Time
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Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...
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- 1991

The Calligrapher
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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,...
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- 2019

The Doll's Breath
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Afraid of losing his wife, Horatio creates a replica he calls Hortensia. But things don't go as planned... Shot on 35mm and propelled by an...
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- 2017

The Music of Zdeněk Liška
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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...
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- 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...
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- 1982

The Falls
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Told in the form of a mock documentary in 92 short parts, nineteen million people are left obsessed with birds and flight following a strange...
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- 1993

Anamorphosis
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The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This...
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- 1984

The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
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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...
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- 2011

Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
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A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the...
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- 2000

In Absentia
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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...
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- 2010

Maska
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The movie is set in a technologically developed but, at the same time, feudal world. Beautiful Duenna was created in order to carry out certain...
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- 2021

11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
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To mark the centenary of the great science fiction writer, Stanislaw Lem, we present this tribute by the legendary stop motion animators Stephen and...
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- 2007

Eurydice: She, So Beloved
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Commissioned by Opera North, the Brothers Quay created the installation and film 'She, So Beloved' inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem...
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- 1993

Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
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Short animated film featuring the song "Can't Go Wrong Without You" by His Name Is Alive.
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- 1991

The Comb
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A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.
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- 1988

Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
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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.
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- 1985

This Unnameable Little Broom
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Stop-motion animated short film in which a puppet on a trike captures a puppet bird-man.
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- 1988

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