Stephen Quay Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Using the tricks of the Flemish playwright's own trade--puppetry, masks, and a Breughelesque sense of bizarre carnival, the collaborators succeeded...

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

"Maska" is the latest animated film of Quay brothers, directors and puppet animators, with the music composed by Krzysztof Penderecki. The film is an...