Stephen Quay

Known for DirectingBorn 1947-06-17 (age 78)Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA

Stephen Quay was born in 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied illustration at the Philadelphia College of Art and later continued his education at the Royal College of Art in London, where he met his twin brother Timothy and began collaborating in animation. Together, they founded Atelier Koninck and produced their first experimental short films in the late 1970s. Throughout his career, Stephen has directed and co-directed short films, feature films, and stop-motion projects, including Nocturna Artificialia (1979), Street of Crocodiles (1986), Institute Benjamenta (1995), and The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005). His work is characterized by dreamlike, detailed, and symbolic worlds, often using dolls and carefully crafted objects to create surreal and unsettling atmospheres.Read more

Movies & web series

Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers

A Fratricide

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

VadeMecum

Maska

The Falls

Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You

Tales of the Brothers Quay

The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

The Comb

Alice in Not So Wonderland

Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

Anamorphosis

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

In Absentia

The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode

Street of Crocodiles

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

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

The Sandman

The Calligrapher

Stille Nacht I: Dramolet

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Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz

11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem

The Doll's Breath

The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin

Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy

Wonderwood: Comme des garçons

This Unnameable Little Broom

Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods

Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003

Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929

Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse

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

Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

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

Stille Nacht V: Dog Door

Nocturna Artificialia

Eurydice: She, So Beloved

Janáček: Intimate Excursions

The Summit

Songs for Dead Children

The Music of Zdeněk Liška

Inventorium of Traces

Rain Dance