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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Quay Brothers

Identical twins Stephen and Timothy QUAY (1947, USA) were educated in film and illustration, respectively, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, and the Royal College of Art in London. Since the 1970s, they’ve been building on a dark, enigmatic oeuvre of stop-motion films, 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. For their film The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005), they received the Special Mention, Main Competition & Jury des Jeunes awards at Locarno International Film Festival.

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), Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (2013, short), The Doll’s Breath (2019, short), Vade mecum (2020, short), 11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem (2021, short), Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2024)

Quay Brothers op IFFR