Stephen Quay Movies

2010
Inside The Institute
Inside The Institute
02010HD
Docimentary about the work of the Qway Brothers for their film Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
2011
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)
6.42011HD
A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the...
1982
The Falls
The Falls
7.31982HD
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...
1981
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
6.71981HD
Using the tricks of the Flemish playwright's own trade--puppetry, masks, and a Breughelesque sense of bizarre carnival, the collaborators succeeded...
2007
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Alice in Not So Wonderland
6.22007HD
The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers.
1988
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
6.61988HD
Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.
1992
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
6.11992HD
Stop-motion animated short film with a white ball, a rabbit, and a girl, and a voice singing "Are We Still Married".
2003
Songs for Dead Children
Songs for Dead Children
5.22003HD
Inspired by Gustav Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder," made for the Tate Gallery, London, and has never been released. "There's something we did for the...
1984
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
61984HD
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...
2000
The Sandman
The Sandman
6.32000HD
One of several collaborative dance films by the Brothers Quay & (dancer, choreographer) William Tuckett. Little enough info around on line, but...
1993
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
6.11993HD
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...
2009
The Art of Time
The Art of Time
02009HD
Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...
2013
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
6.12013HD
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...
2009
Kinoteka Ident
Kinoteka Ident
02009HD
Opening sequence for the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival.
2006
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
02006HD
An Interview with The Quay Brothers & Alan Passes April 2006 at Atelier Konick, London
2001
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
5.82001HD
Tom Waits, the brothers Quay, and a dog door.
1995
The Summit
The Summit
5.31995HD
Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.
1991
The Comb
The Comb
6.71991HD
A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.
2000
In Absentia
In Absentia
6.4642000HD
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...
2010
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
62010HD
A bird acts as an alchemist in an enchanted forest, selecting different kinds of wood to combine them in a parquet floor.