Stephen Quay

Stephen Quay was born in 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied illustration at the Philadelphia College of Art and later continued his education at the Royal College of Art in London, where he met his twin brother Timothy and began collaborating in animation. Together, they founded Atelier Koninck and produced their first experimental short films in the late 1970s. Throughout his career, Stephen has directed and co-directed short films, feature films, and stop-motion projects, including Nocturna Artificialia (1979), Street of Crocodiles (1986), Institute Benjamenta (1995), and The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005). His work is characterized by dreamlike, detailed, and symbolic worlds, often using dolls and carefully crafted objects to create surreal and unsettling atmospheres.

Cast

Inside The Institute
Unknown
The Bug Trainer
Self - stop-motion animator
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
Unknown
Quay
Self
The Art of Time
Unknown
The Falls
Ipson Fallari
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
Librarian
The Music of Zdeněk Liška
Self
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
Unknown
Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers
Self

Crew

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Director, Writer
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Director, Writer, Production Design
Tales of the Brothers Quay
Director
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
Director
Nocturna Artificialia
Director, Cinematography
This Unnameable Little Broom
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Anamorphosis
Director, Art Direction, Editor, Animation, Camera Operator
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Director, Cinematography
The Comb
Director, Writer, Animation, Editor, Camera Operator, Art Direction
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
Director, Director of Photography
Street of Crocodiles
Director, Editor, Animation, Writer, Production Design
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
Director
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Director
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
Director
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
Director
Songs for Dead Children
Director
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
Director, Writer
In Absentia
Director
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
Director
VadeMecum
Director
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Director, Sound, Animation, Editor
Maska
Director, Writer
The Calligrapher
Director, Animation
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
Director
The Summit
Director
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Writer, Animation, Director
Janáček: Intimate Excursions
Director
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
Director, Set Designer, Editor
Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929
Director
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
Director
Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003
Director
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
Director
Ghosts and Whispers
Animation, Director
Rain Dance
Director
Inventorium of Traces
Director of Photography, Sound Designer, Director, Editor
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Animation, Screenplay, Director, Sound, Editor
The Sandman
Director
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz
Director
Ex Voto
Director
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Director, Writer, Cinematography
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
Director
Kinoteka Ident
Director
Quay
Thanks
The Doll's Breath
Director
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
Director, Animation
The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993
Director
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
Writer, Director
A Fratricide
Director, Animation