Stephen Quay Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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

A bird acts as an alchemist in an enchanted forest, selecting different kinds of wood to combine them in a parquet floor.

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

Docimentary about the work of the Qway Brothers for their film Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

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...

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...

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...

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