Timothy Quay

Timothy Quay

  • Title: Timothy Quay
  • Popularity: 2.551
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1947-06-17
  • Place of Birth: Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
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Timothy Quay Movies

  • 2009
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    The Bug Trainer

    The Bug Trainer

    4 2009 HD

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

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  • 2015
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    The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin

    The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin

    6 2015 HD

    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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  • 2015
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    Quay

    Quay

    6.07 2015 HD

    In 2015, Christopher Nolan curated a selection of short films by the surrealist animators the Quay Brothers to be distributed as a touring 35mm...

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  • 2009
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    The Art of Time

    The Art of Time

    1 2009 HD

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

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  • 1980
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    The Falls

    The Falls

    7.1 1980 HD

    The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios of 92 survivors.

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  • 2017
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    The Music of Zdeněk Liška

    The Music of Zdeněk Liška

    8 2017 HD

    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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  • 2006
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    The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"

    The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"

    1 2006 HD

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

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  • 2011
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    Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers

    Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers

    1 2011 HD

    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...

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  • 1995
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    Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

    Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

    7.716 1995 HD

    Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other...

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  • 2005
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    The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

    The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

    6.067 2005 HD

    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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  • 1987
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    Tales of the Brothers Quay

    Tales of the Brothers Quay

    6.4 1987 HD

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

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  • 1991
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    The Comb

    The Comb

    6.731 1991 HD

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

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  • 1992
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    Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?

    Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?

    6.077 1992 HD

    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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  • 1993
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    Anamorphosis

    Anamorphosis

    6.5 1993 HD

    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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  • 1979
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    Nocturna Artificialia

    Nocturna Artificialia

    5.775 1979 HD

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

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  • 1984
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    The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

    The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

    6.803 1984 HD

    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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  • 1986
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    Street of Crocodiles

    Street of Crocodiles

    6.493 1986 HD

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

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  • 1987
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    Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

    Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

    6.625 1987 HD

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

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  • 1985
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    This Unnameable Little Broom

    This Unnameable Little Broom

    6.1 1985 HD

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

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  • 2007
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    Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers

    Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers

    9 2007 HD

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  • 1993
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    Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods

    Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods

    6 1993 HD

    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...

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  • 1988
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    Stille Nacht I: Dramolet

    Stille Nacht I: Dramolet

    6.3 1988 HD

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

    Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You

    6.9 1993 HD

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

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  • 2003
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    Songs for Dead Children

    Songs for Dead Children

    5 2003 HD

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

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  • 2001
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    Stille Nacht V: Dog Door

    Stille Nacht V: Dog Door

    6 2001 HD

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

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  • 2000
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    In Absentia

    In Absentia

    6.3 2000 HD

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

    The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film

    6 1984 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    VadeMecum

    VadeMecum

    7 2021 HD

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

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

    6.3 2011 HD

    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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  • 2010
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    Maska

    Maska

    7 2010 HD

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

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  • 1987
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    Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

    Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

    6.625 1987 HD

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

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

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

    6.1 2003 HD

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

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  • 1995
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    The Summit

    The Summit

    5.5 1995 HD

    Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.

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  • 1991
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    The Calligrapher

    The Calligrapher

    6.4 1991 HD

    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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  • 1991
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    The Comb

    The Comb

    6.731 1991 HD

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

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

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

    6.3 2011 HD

    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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  • 2011
    imgMovies

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

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

    6.3 2011 HD

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

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

    6.3 2011 HD

    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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  • 2005
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    The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

    The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

    6.067 2005 HD

    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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  • 1985
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    This Unnameable Little Broom

    This Unnameable Little Broom

    6.1 1985 HD

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

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  • 1985
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    This Unnameable Little Broom

    This Unnameable Little Broom

    6.1 1985 HD

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

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  • 1984
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    The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

    The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

    6.803 1984 HD

    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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  • 2013
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    Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

    Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

    6.3 2013 HD

    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...

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  • 2013
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    Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

    Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

    6.3 2013 HD

    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...

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  • 1983
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    Janáček: Intimate Excursions

    Janáček: Intimate Excursions

    5 1983 HD

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

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  • 1991
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    The Calligrapher

    The Calligrapher

    6.4 1991 HD

    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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  • 2001
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    Stille Nacht V: Dog Door

    Stille Nacht V: Dog Door

    6 2001 HD

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

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  • 1991
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    The Comb

    The Comb

    6.731 1991 HD

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

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    The Comb

    The Comb

    6.731 1991 HD

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

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    The Comb

    The Comb

    6.731 1991 HD

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

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    The Comb

    The Comb

    6.731 1991 HD

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

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  • 1993
    imgMovies

    Anamorphosis

    Anamorphosis

    6.5 1993 HD

    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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  • 1993
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    Anamorphosis

    Anamorphosis

    6.5 1993 HD

    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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  • 1993
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    Anamorphosis

    Anamorphosis

    6.5 1993 HD

    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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  • 1993
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    Anamorphosis

    Anamorphosis

    6.5 1993 HD

    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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  • 2007
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    Eurydice: She, So Beloved

    Eurydice: She, So Beloved

    5.6 2007 HD

    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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  • 2007
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    Eurydice: She, So Beloved

    Eurydice: She, So Beloved

    5.6 2007 HD

    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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  • 2007
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    Eurydice: She, So Beloved

    Eurydice: She, So Beloved

    5.6 2007 HD

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

    Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929

    6 1982 HD

    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...

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  • 2010
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    Maska

    Maska

    7 2010 HD

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

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  • 2001
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    Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse

    Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse

    1 2001 HD

    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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  • 2004
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    Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003

    Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003

    1 2004 HD

    This two-disc set contains 13 of their classic short films in brand new restored and remastered editions, plus a collection of 'footnotes', including...

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  • 1986
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    Street of Crocodiles

    Street of Crocodiles

    6.493 1986 HD

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

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  • 1995
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    Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

    Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

    7.716 1995 HD

    Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other...

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  • 2021
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    11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem

    11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem

    1 2021 HD

    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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  • 2022
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    Ghosts and Whispers

    Ghosts and Whispers

    1 2022 HD

    An unbroken sequence of fragments, last thoughts, elegies and absences by Schubert, Mozart, Wagner, Janáček, Stravinsky, Jacquet de la Guerre...

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  • 2022
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    Ghosts and Whispers

    Ghosts and Whispers

    1 2022 HD

    An unbroken sequence of fragments, last thoughts, elegies and absences by Schubert, Mozart, Wagner, Janáček, Stravinsky, Jacquet de la Guerre...

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  • 1988
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    Rain Dance

    Rain Dance

    1 1988 HD

    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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  • 2013
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    Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

    Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

    6.3 2013 HD

    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...

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  • 2009
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    Inventorium of Traces

    Inventorium of Traces

    5 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 2009
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    Inventorium of Traces

    Inventorium of Traces

    5 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 2009
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    Inventorium of Traces

    Inventorium of Traces

    5 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 2009
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    Inventorium of Traces

    Inventorium of Traces

    5 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 2005
    imgMovies

    The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

    The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

    6.067 2005 HD

    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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  • 2024
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    Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

    Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

    1 2024 HD

    A man journeys by rail to a nameless sanatorium where his father has recently died. Once there, time loses its linearity and he finds himself in a...

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  • 2024
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    Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

    Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

    1 2024 HD

    A man journeys by rail to a nameless sanatorium where his father has recently died. Once there, time loses its linearity and he finds himself in a...

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  • 2024
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    Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

    Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

    1 2024 HD

    A man journeys by rail to a nameless sanatorium where his father has recently died. Once there, time loses its linearity and he finds himself in a...

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  • 2000
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    The Sandman

    The Sandman

    6 2000 HD

    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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  • 2022
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    The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz

    The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz

    1 2022 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    Ex Voto

    Ex Voto

    4 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 2007
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    Alice in Not So Wonderland

    Alice in Not So Wonderland

    5.7 2007 HD

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

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  • 2007
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    Alice in Not So Wonderland

    Alice in Not So Wonderland

    5.7 2007 HD

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

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  • 2007
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    Alice in Not So Wonderland

    Alice in Not So Wonderland

    5.7 2007 HD

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

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  • 2010
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    Wonderwood: Comme des garçons

    Wonderwood: Comme des garçons

    7 2010 HD

    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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  • 2009
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    Kinoteka Ident

    Kinoteka Ident

    1 2009 HD

    Opening sequence for the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival.

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  • 2015
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    Quay

    Quay

    6.07 2015 HD

    In 2015, Christopher Nolan curated a selection of short films by the surrealist animators the Quay Brothers to be distributed as a touring 35mm...

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  • 1979
    imgMovies

    Nocturna Artificialia

    Nocturna Artificialia

    5.775 1979 HD

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

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  • 2024
    imgMovies

    Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

    Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

    1 2024 HD

    A man journeys by rail to a nameless sanatorium where his father has recently died. Once there, time loses its linearity and he finds himself in a...

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  • 2024
    imgMovies

    Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

    Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

    1 2024 HD

    A man journeys by rail to a nameless sanatorium where his father has recently died. Once there, time loses its linearity and he finds himself in a...

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  • 2019
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    The Doll's Breath

    The Doll's Breath

    1 2019 HD

    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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  • 1981
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    Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy

    Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy

    5 1981 HD

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

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  • 1981
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    Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy

    Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy

    5 1981 HD

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

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  • 1986
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    Street of Crocodiles

    Street of Crocodiles

    6.493 1986 HD

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

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  • 1986
    imgMovies

    Street of Crocodiles

    Street of Crocodiles

    6.493 1986 HD

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

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  • 1986
    imgMovies

    Street of Crocodiles

    Street of Crocodiles

    6.493 1986 HD

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

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

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

    1 2000 HD

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

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  • 1981
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    The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode

    The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode

    6 1981 HD

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

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  • 1981
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    The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode

    The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode

    6 1981 HD

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

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