Stephen Quay Movies
- 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...
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- 2003
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 Collection6.22003HD
A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.
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- 2007
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Alice in Not So Wonderland6.22007HD
The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers.
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- 1984
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film61984HD
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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- 2000
In Absentia
In Absentia6.4642000HD
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...
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- 2001
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door5.82001HD
Tom Waits, the brothers Quay, and a dog door.
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- 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
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- 1993
Anamorphosis
Anamorphosis6.61993HD
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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- 1988
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies6.61988HD
Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.
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- 2003
Songs for Dead Children
Songs for Dead Children5.22003HD
Inspired by Gustav Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder," made for the Tate Gallery, London, and has never been released. "There's something we did for the...
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- 2010
Inside The Institute
Inside The Institute02010HD
Docimentary about the work of the Qway Brothers for their film Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
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- 1993
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods6.11993HD
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...
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- 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".
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- 1991
The Comb
The Comb6.71991HD
A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.
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- 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...
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- 2021
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem62021HD
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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- 2010
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons62010HD
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
Inventorium of Traces
Inventorium of Traces52009HD
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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- 1988
Rain Dance
Rain Dance51988HD
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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- 2011
Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers
Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers02011HD
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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