Stephen Quay Movies

Told in the form of a mock documentary in 92 short parts, nineteen million people are left obsessed with birds and flight following a strange...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

Near an extraordinary chair with many legs, a hand is visible gripping an edge. The hand is weathered, the fingers cracked and scarred. The end of a...

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...

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

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

An Interview with The Quay Brothers & Alan Passes April 2006 at Atelier Konick, London

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...

To mark the centenary of the great science fiction writer, Stanislaw Lem, we present this tribute by the legendary stop motion animators Stephen and...

One of the best Czech composers of film soundtracks is often described as a genius of film scores. He was not afraid to experiment and the...

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...

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,...

The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This...

This short documentary documents the making of the film the Quay Brothers shot at, and on the subject of, the Mütter Museum of The College of...