Timothy Quay Movies

The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers.

In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff...

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...

Short animated film featuring the song "Can't Go Wrong Without You" by His Name Is Alive.

A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.

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...

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

Igor: The Paris Years, one segment of a larger biographical program created for Channel 4 on the life and times of Igor Stravinsky, finds the...

Using the tricks of the Flemish playwright's own trade--puppetry, masks, and a Breughelesque sense of bizarre carnival, the collaborators succeeded...

One of several collaborative dance films by the Brothers Quay & (dancer, choreographer) William Tuckett. Little enough info around on line, but...

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

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

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

The movie is set in a technologically developed but, at the same time, feudal world. Beautiful Duenna was created in order to carry out certain...

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...

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...

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...

A farming family and their livestock dance during a much-needed downpour in this Quay Brothers short made for Sesame Street.

Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.

VadeMecum is a new short produced by the Palme d’Or-nominated animators Stephen and Timothy Quay. The film shows the life and works of Polish...