Quay Brothers
Identical twins Stephen and Timothy QUAY (1947, USA) were respectively educated in film and illustration at the art academy in Philadelphia and the Royal College of Art in London. Since the 1970s, they've been building on a dark, enigmatic oeuvre encompassing stop-motion films, but which also includes drawings, set designs and diorama boxes. Reflected in all these works is the brothers' fascination for 20th-century Central and Eastern European culture.
Filmography
Nocturna Artificiala (1979, short), Punch & Judy (1980, short), The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode (1981, short), Igor – Chez Pleyel – The Paris Years (1982, short), Leos Janacek: Intimate Excursions (1983, short), The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984, short), This Unnameable Little Broom (1985, short), Street of Crocodiles (1986, short), Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1987, short), Stille Nacht I (1988, short), Ex-Voto (1989, short), The Pond (1989), The Comb – From the Museum of Sleep (1990, short), De Artificiali Perspectiva or: Anamorphosis (1991, short), The Calligrapher (1991, short), Stille Nacht II (1991, short), Stille Nacht III (1992, short), Stille Nacht IV (1993, short), Institute Benjamenta or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995), Duet: Variations for the Convalescence of 'A' (1999, short), In Absentia (2000, short), The Sandman (2000, short), The Phantom Museum (2002, short), The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005), Eurydice... She, So Beloved (2007, short), Inventorium sladow (2009, doc), Maska (2010, short), 2 Film Concerts – Ibragimova & Rudy (2012, performance), Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (2013, short), The Doll's Breath (2019, short)
Quay Brothers at IFFR
Institute Benjamenta or This Dream People Call Human Life
105'
United Kingdom
IFFR 1997
00298 Comb
18'
IFFR 1998
De Artificiali Perspectiva or Anamorphosis
15'
United Kingdom
IFFR 1998
Der Loop Der Loop
2'
United Kingdom
IFFR 1998
Dramolet (Stille Nacht I)
1'
United Kingdom
IFFR 1998
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
14'
United Kingdom
IFFR 1998
Stille Nacht II
4'
United Kingdom
IFFR 1998
Stille Nacht III
4'
United Kingdom
IFFR 1998
Stille Nacht IV
4'
United Kingdom
IFFR 1998
Duet: Variations for the Convalescence of 'A'
16'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2000
In Absentia
20'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2001
The Sandman
41'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2001
Stille Nacht V
5'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2002
The Phantom Museum
11'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2003
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
99'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2006
Dormitorium
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
Maska
24'
Poland
IFFR 2011
Wonderwood
3'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2011
2 Film Concerts - Ibragimova & Rudy
United Kingdom
IFFR 2013
RE-ENACTMENTS, This Comb Does Not Work at Random (Hommage à Segundo de Chomón) El Hotel Electrico 1908, 2014
United Kingdom
IFFR 2017
Dream Pools & Collecting Holes
With this unique, immersive installation the Quay Brothers introduce a number of motifs, images and objects from their film-in-the-making. Otherwordly.
420'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2020