Stephen Quay Movies

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)
6.42011HD
A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the...
1992
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
6.11992HD
Stop-motion animated short film with a white ball, a rabbit, and a girl, and a voice singing "Are We Still Married".
2009
The Art of Time
The Art of Time
02009HD
Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...
2000
The Sandman
The Sandman
6.3332000HD
One of several collaborative dance films by the Brothers Quay & (dancer, choreographer) William Tuckett. Little enough info around on line, but...
1981
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
6.3331981HD
An unusual documentary from the Brothers Quay and Keith Griffiths about the history of the Punch and Judy puppet show.
2009
The Bug Trainer
The Bug Trainer
42009HD
The Bug Trainer explores Starewitch’s creative ideas and concepts of his work, along with opinions from film critics and other animation...
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 Collection
6.252003HD
A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.
2010
Inside The Institute
Inside The Institute
02010HD
Docimentary about the work of the Qway Brothers for their film Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
1991
The Comb
The Comb
6.6771991HD
A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.
1995
The Summit
The Summit
5.31995HD
Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.
2001
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
5.82001HD
Tom Waits, the brothers Quay, and a dog door.
2013
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
6.12013HD
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...
2022
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz
62022HD
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...
2021
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
62021HD
To mark the centenary of the great science fiction writer, Stanislaw Lem, we present this tribute by the legendary stop motion animators Stephen and...
1988
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
6.6461988HD
Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.
2009
Kinoteka Ident
Kinoteka Ident
02009HD
Opening sequence for the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival.
1988
Rain Dance
Rain Dance
51988HD
A farming family and their livestock dance during a much-needed downpour in this Quay Brothers short made for Sesame Street.
2007
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Alice in Not So Wonderland
6.252007HD
The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers.
1981
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
6.71981HD
Using the tricks of the Flemish playwright's own trade--puppetry, masks, and a Breughelesque sense of bizarre carnival, the collaborators succeeded...
2003
Songs for Dead Children
Songs for Dead Children
5.22003HD
Inspired by Gustav Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder," made for the Tate Gallery, London, and has never been released. "There's something we did for the...