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Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2025)

Jozef embarks on a journey via a ghostly train to visit his dying father in a remote Galician sanatorium. Upon arrival, he discovers that the sanatorium exists in a realm where time is distorted—his father's death has not yet occurred, as time here lags ...

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The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz (2022)

A short documentary on the life of Polish author Bruno Schulz by Stephen and Timothy Quay, who adapted his work for their 1986 animated film Street of Crocodiles, made in honor of the 80th anniversary of his death. ...

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Ghosts and Whispers (2022)

An unbroken sequence of fragments, last thoughts, elegies and absences by Schubert, Mozart, Wagner, Janáček, Stravinsky, Jacquet de la Guerre and Schumann, inter-leaved with movements from John Woolrich's Pianobooks. The programme is performed alongside ...

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11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem (2021)

To mark the centenary of the great science fiction writer, Stanislaw Lem, we present this tribute by the legendary stop motion animators Stephen and Timothy Quay. Explore the life and impact of Stanisław Lem through an unique lens of the Quay Brothers. ...

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VadeMecum (2021)

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 poet Cyprian Kamil Norwid, and offers a great introduction to his legacy ahead of the bicentennial of his birth in ...

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The Doll's Breath (2019)

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 impressive score by Michèle Bokanowski, the Quay Brothers evoke an intense drama of jealousy, betrayal and murder, ...

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Quay (2015)

In 2015, Christopher Nolan curated a selection of short films by the surrealist animators the Quay Brothers to be distributed as a touring 35mm presentation. The three films—"In Absentia" (2000), "The Comb" (1991) and "Street of Crocodiles" (1986)—were ...

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Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (2013)

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 work of Felisberto Hernández, Uruguayan father of magical realism. Through this journey, we are confronte ...

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Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) (2011)

A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Mutter Museum housed there. This short film represents the first to be made by the internationally recognized Q ...

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Wonderwood: Comme des garçons (2010)

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

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Maska (2010)

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 mission. However, she will be forced to choose between accomplishing the task she was created for and love. ...

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Kinoteka Ident (2009)

Opening sequence for the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival. ...

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Inventorium of Traces (2009)

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 tones of Krzysztof Penderecki's music and Brothers Quay's imaginary animation. ...

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Eurydice: She, So Beloved (2007)

Commissioned by Opera North, the Brothers Quay created the installation and film 'She, So Beloved' inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's poem 'Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes.' The Orfeo myth is re-told through a combination of art forms; film, dance, music and visu ...

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Alice in Not So Wonderland (2007)

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

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Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers (2007)

Two of the world's most original filmmakers, identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay have been creating their unique blend of puppetry and stop-motion animation for nearly 30 years and have spawned an enormous cult following. The Quays display a passion f ...

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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005)

Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale. ...

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Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003 (2004)

This two-disc set contains 13 of their classic short films in brand new restored and remastered editions, plus a collection of 'footnotes', including interviews, idents, alternative versions, unreleased pilot projects and more. The Quays were extensively i ...

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The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (2003)

A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities. ...

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Songs for Dead Children (2003)

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

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Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse (2001)

All of the album's songs were made into music videos by various filmmakers, such as the Quay Brothers, Garine Torossian, Grant Gee, and Guy Maddin. ...

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Stille Nacht V: Dog Door (2001)

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

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The Sandman (2000)

One of several collaborative dance films by the Brothers Quay & (dancer, choreographer) William Tuckett. Little enough info around on line, but there's briefly by way of Wikipedia entry. Adapted rather loosely from the works of the E.T.A. Hoffman. Familiar ...

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In Absentia (2000)

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 window. She sharpens pencils and writes on a page in a copy book. The pencil point often breaks under her f ...

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The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993 (2000)

Ten stop-motion animation works by brilliant animators The Brothers Quay, including six previously unavailable shorts and two unique music videos by "His Name is Alive. ...

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Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)

Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better r ...

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The Summit (1995)

Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance. ...

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Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You (1993)

Short animated film featuring the song "Can't Go Wrong Without You" by His Name Is Alive. ...

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Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods (1993)

Near an extraordinary chair with many legs, a hand is visible gripping an edge. The hand is weathered, the fingers cracked and scarred. The end of a rifle appears and a shot fires. The bullet is visible whirling through space; it caroms and then goes throu ...

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Anamorphosis (1993)

The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This artistic technique, often used in the 16th- and 17th centuries, utilizes a method of visual distortion with which ...

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Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? (1992)

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

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The Comb (1991)

A porcelain doll's explorations of a dreamer's imagination. ...

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The Calligrapher (1991)

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, thinks, then draws a straight line down the page in front of him, out of which sprout six more quill pens, each ...

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Ex Voto (1989)

An extremely obscure minute-long short by the Brothers Quay in 1989. Animation appears to be done in 'Cutout' style, is abstract and plotless - more a moving painting than anything else. Featured on the 'Inner Sanctums' blu-ray boxset featuring a vast col ...

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Rain Dance (1988)

A farming family and their livestock dance during a much-needed downpour in this Quay Brothers short made for Sesame Street. ...

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Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)

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

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Stille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988)

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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Tales of the Brothers Quay (1987)

A compilation of shorts by the Quay Brothers presented as a feature film. ...

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Street of Crocodiles (1986)

A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself. ...

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This Unnameable Little Broom (1985)

Stop-motion animated short film in which a puppet on a trike captures a puppet bird-man. ...

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The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer (1984)

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 and toys from the child's head, leaving him without the top of his head for most of the film. The professo ...

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The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film (1984)

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 as a separate short. ...

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Janáček: Intimate Excursions (1983)

Janacek: Intimate Excursions is a short experimental documentary that attempts to find visual references in the correspondence of Leos Janacek, the Czechoslovak composer. ...

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Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929 (1982)

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 brothers working in a slightly different vein than the one that would come to characterize their later work. This ...

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Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy (1981)

An unusual documentary from the Brothers Quay and Keith Griffiths about the history of the Punch and Judy puppet show. ...

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The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode (1981)

Using the tricks of the Flemish playwright's own trade--puppetry, masks, and a Breughelesque sense of bizarre carnival, the collaborators succeeded in bringing about a rich and sardonic humor lurking at the edge of the playwright's macabre, death-obsessed ...

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Nocturna Artificialia (1979)

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

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Movies Starring Timothy Quay (8)

The Music of Zdeněk Liška (2017)

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 timelessness of his work is proven by the admiration of the world, including the generation who came to know his musi ...

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The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin (2015)

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 the digital age, this heretical director hailing from the snowy plains of Canada has spent 25 years transp ...

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Quay (2015)

In 2015, Christopher Nolan curated a selection of short films by the surrealist animators the Quay Brothers to be distributed as a touring 35mm presentation. The three films—"In Absentia" (2000), "The Comb" (1991) and "Street of Crocodiles" (1986)—were ...

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Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers (2011)

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 Physicians of Philadelphia, the first film the internationally-known filmmakers have made in the U.S.A. ...

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The Art of Time (2009)

Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter the uniform sense of time promoted by our technology-driven society. ...

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The Bug Trainer (2009)

The Bug Trainer explores Starewitch's creative ideas and concepts of his work, along with opinions from film critics and other animation directors to help us understand why he is considered one of the greatest creators of the animation world. ...

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The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes" (2006)

An Interview with The Quay Brothers & Alan Passes April 2006 at Atelier Konick, London ...

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The Falls (1982)

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 occurrence. A documentarian analyses the lives of all the survivors whose surnames begin with FALL to uncover the ...

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