Timothy Quay Movies

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

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.

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

One of several collaborative dance films by the Brothers Quay & (dancer, choreographer) William Tuckett. Little enough info around on line, but...

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

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...

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

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

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

The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This...

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

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...

Inspired by Gustav Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder," made for the Tate Gallery, London, and has never been released. "There's something we did for the...

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

Opening sequence for the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival.

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.

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...

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...

A man murders his brother in a crime of jealous passion. An adaptation of Franz Kafka's short story of the same name.