Timothy Quay Movies
- 2005
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes6.12005HD
Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.
- 2015
Quay
Quay6.0172015HD
In 2015, Christopher Nolan curated a selection of short films by the surrealist animators the Quay Brothers to be distributed as a touring 35mm...
- 2015
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin62015HD
Guy Maddin, who has been nicknamed the Canadian David Lynch, is undoubtedly one of the last remaining Magi of cinema. Despite living in the middle of...
- 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)6.32011HD
A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the...
- 1995
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life7.71995HD
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other...
- 1980
The Falls
The Falls7.21980HD
The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios of 92 survivors.
- 1986
Street of Crocodiles
Street of Crocodiles6.51986HD
A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.
- 2000
In Absentia
In Absentia6.32000HD
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...
- 1984
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer6.81984HD
In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff...
- 2007
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Alice in Not So Wonderland5.72007HD
The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers.
- 2024
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass72024HD
A man journeys by rail to a nameless sanatorium where his father has recently died. Once there, time loses its linearity and he finds himself in a...
- 2007
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
Eurydice: She, So Beloved5.62007HD
Commissioned by Opera North, the Brothers Quay created the installation and film 'She, So Beloved' inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem...
- 1988
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet6.31988HD
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.
- 2009
Kinoteka Ident
Kinoteka Ident02009HD
Opening sequence for the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival.
- 1991
The Calligrapher
The Calligrapher6.41991HD
With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink,...
- 1993
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You6.91993HD
Short animated film featuring the song "Can't Go Wrong Without You" by His Name Is Alive.
- 1985
This Unnameable Little Broom
This Unnameable Little Broom6.11985HD
Stop-motion animated short film in which a puppet on a trike captures a puppet bird-man.
- 1981
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy51981HD
An unusual documentary from the Brothers Quay and Keith Griffiths about the history of the Punch and Judy puppet show.
- 1987
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies6.61987HD
Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.
- 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 Collection6.12003HD
A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.