Timothy Quay
Timothy Quay was born in 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA, as the identical twin of Stephen Quay. He studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and later at the Royal College of Art in London, where he began working with his brother in experimental animation. Timothy has directed and co-directed numerous 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 distinguished by surreal, detailed atmospheres, frozen worlds, and objects full of history, with a constant collaboration alongside Stephen throughout his career.
Cast
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
The Comb
Director, Writer, Camera Operator, Art Direction, Editor, Animation
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
Director
Anamorphosis
Director, Art Direction, Editor, Camera Operator, Animation
Nocturna Artificialia
Director, Cinematography
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
Director, Director of Photography
Street of Crocodiles
Director, Editor, Animation, Writer, Production Design
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Director, Cinematography
This Unnameable Little Broom
Director, Director of Photography, Writer
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 Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
Director
The Summit
Director
The Calligrapher
Director, Animation
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Animation, Writer, Director
Janáček: Intimate Excursions
Director
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
Set Designer, Editor, Director
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
Director, Animation
Rain Dance
Director
Inventorium of Traces
Editor, Director, Director of Photography, Sound Designer
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Screenplay, Animation, Director, Editor, Sound
The Sandman
Director
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz
Director
Ex Voto
Director
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Director, Cinematography, Writer
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
Director, Writer
A Fratricide
Director, Animation