Timothy Quay Movies

  • 1985
    This Unnameable Little Broom

    This Unnameable Little Broom

    This Unnameable Little Broom

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    Stop-motion animated short film in which a puppet on a trike captures a puppet bird-man.

    This Unnameable Little Broom
  • 1993
    Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You

    Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You

    Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You

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

    Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
  • 2007
    Alice in Not So Wonderland

    Alice in Not So Wonderland

    Alice in Not So Wonderland

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

    Alice in Not So Wonderland
  • 2003
    Songs for Dead Children

    Songs for Dead Children

    Songs for Dead Children

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    Another short, grainy film from the Quay Brothers. This one has funny singing in it.

    Songs for Dead Children
  • 2010
    Maska

    Maska

    Maska

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    "Maska" is the latest animated film of Quay brothers, directors and puppet animators, with the music composed by Krzysztof Penderecki. The film is an...

    Maska
  • 1981
    Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy

    Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy

    Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy

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    An unusual documentary from the Brothers Quay and Keith Griffiths about the history of the Punch and Judy puppet show.

    Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
  • 2009
    The Art of Time

    The Art of Time

    The Art of Time

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    Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...

    The Art of Time
  • 1993
    Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods

    Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods

    Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods

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    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...

    Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
  • 2022
    Ghosts and Whispers

    Ghosts and Whispers

    Ghosts and Whispers

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    An unbroken sequence of fragments, last thoughts, elegies and absences by Schubert, Mozart, Wagner, Janáček, Stravinsky, Jacquet de la...

    Ghosts and Whispers
  • 1982
    Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929

    Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929

    Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929

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    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...

    Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929
  • 1991
    The Calligrapher

    The Calligrapher

    The Calligrapher

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    With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink,...

    The Calligrapher
  • 2019
    The Doll's Breath

    The Doll's Breath

    The Doll's Breath

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    Afraid of losing his wife, Horatio creates a replica he calls Hortensia. But things don't go as planned... Shot on 35mm and propelled by an...

    The Doll's Breath
  • 2007
    Eurydice: She, So Beloved

    Eurydice: She, So Beloved

    Eurydice: She, So Beloved

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    Commissioned by Opera North, the Brothers Quay created the installation and film 'She, So Beloved' inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem...

    Eurydice: She, So Beloved
  • 2013
    Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

    Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

    Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

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    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...

    Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
  • 2001
    Stille Nacht V: Dog Door

    Stille Nacht V: Dog Door

    Stille Nacht V: Dog Door

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    Tom Waits, the brothers Quay, and a dog door.

    Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
  • 2009
    Kinoteka Ident

    Kinoteka Ident

    Kinoteka Ident

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    Opening sequence for the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival.

    Kinoteka Ident
  • 1989
    Ex Voto

    Ex Voto

    Ex Voto

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    An extremely obscure minute-long short by the Brothers Quay in 1989. Animation appears to be done in 'Cutout' style, is abstract and plotless - more...

    Ex Voto
  • 1995
    The Summit

    The Summit

    The Summit

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    Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.

    The Summit
  • 2010
    Wonderwood: Comme des garçons

    Wonderwood: Comme des garçons

    Wonderwood: Comme des garçons

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

    Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
  • 2006
    The Making of

    The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"

    The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"

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    An Interview with The Quay Brothers & Alan Passes April 2006 at Atelier Konick, London

    The Making of