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.
Fotos
Películas (58)
Postscriptum. Ruminations on My Craft
2026 · Director
Sledgehammer Revealed
2026 · Self
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
2025 · Animation, Screenplay, Director, Sound, Editor
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz
2022 · Director
Ghosts and Whispers
2022 · Animation, Director
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
2021 · Director
VadeMecum
2021 · Director
The Doll's Breath
2019 · Director
The Music of Zdeněk Liška
2017 · Self
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
Quay
2015 · Self, Thanks
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
2013 · Writer, Animation, Director
Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers
2011 · Self
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011 · Director, Sound, Animation, Editor
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
2010 · Director
Maska
2010 · Director, Writer
Inside The Institute
2010
The Art of Time
2009
Kinoteka Ident
2009 · Director
The Bug Trainer
2009 · Self - stop-motion animator
Inventorium of Traces
2009 · Director of Photography, Sound Designer, Director, Editor
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
2007 · Director, Set Designer, Editor
Alice in Not So Wonderland
2007 · Director, Writer, Cinematography
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
2007 · Director
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
2006
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
2005 · Director, Writer, Production Design
Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003
2004 · Director
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
2003 · Librarian, Director, Animation
Songs for Dead Children
2003 · Director
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
2001 · Director
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
2001 · Director, Writer
The Sandman
2000 · Director
In Absentia
2000 · Director, Animation
The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993
2000 · Director
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
1995 · Director, Writer
The Summit
1995 · Director
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
1993 · Director, Camera Operator, Animation
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
1993 · Director, Animation, Camera Operator
Anamorphosis
1993 · Director, Art Direction, Editor, Animation, Camera Operator, Decorator
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
1992 · Director, Animation, Camera Operator
The Comb
1991 · Director, Writer, Animation, Editor, Camera Operator, Art Direction
The Calligrapher
1991 · Director, Animation
Ex Voto
1989 · Director
Rain Dance
1988 · Director
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
1988 · Director, Cinematography, Animation, Decorator
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
1988 · Director
Tales of the Brothers Quay
1987 · Director
Street of Crocodiles
1986 · Director, Editor, Animation, Writer, Production Design
This Unnameable Little Broom
1985 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
1984 · Director, Director of Photography
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
1984 · Director
Janáček: Intimate Excursions
1983 · Director
The Falls
1982 · Ipson Fallari
Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929
1982 · Director
A Fratricide
1981 · Director, Animation
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
1981 · Director, Animation
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
1981 · Writer, Director
Nocturna Artificialia
1979 · Director, Cinematography
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