Directing
Stephen Quay
1947-06-17 · Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Known for
Street of Crocodiles
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Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
The Falls
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
The Comb
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
In Absentia
This Unnameable Little Broom
Anamorphosis
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Nocturna Artificialia
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
Movie credits · 58
Postscriptum. Ruminations on My Craft
Sledgehammer Revealed
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz
Ghosts and Whispers
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
VadeMecum
The Doll's Breath
The Music of Zdeněk Liška
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
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Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
Maska
Inside The Institute
The Art of Time
Kinoteka Ident
The Bug Trainer
Inventorium of Traces
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
Songs for Dead Children
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
The Sandman
In Absentia
The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
The Summit
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Anamorphosis
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
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