Known For
Directing
Born
Jun 17, 1947
Place of Birth
Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
Credits
58 titles
Stephen Quay
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Sledgehammer Revealed
Self
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Animation
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz
Director
Ghosts and Whispers
Animation
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
Director
VadeMecum
Director
The Doll's Breath
Director
The Music of Zdeněk Liška
Self
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
Quay
Self
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Writer
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Director
Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers
Self
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
Director
Maska
Director
Inside The Institute
The Art of Time
Kinoteka Ident
Director
The Bug Trainer
Self - stop-motion animator
Inventorium of Traces
Director of Photography
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
Director
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Director
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
Director
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Director
Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003
Director
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
Librarian
Songs for Dead Children
Director
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
Director
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
Director
The Sandman
Director
In Absentia
Director
The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993
Director
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Director
The Summit
Director
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
Director
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Director
Anamorphosis
Director
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
Director
The Comb
Director
The Calligrapher
Director
Ex Voto
Director
Rain Dance
Director
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
Director
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Director
Tales of the Brothers Quay
Director
Street of Crocodiles
Director
This Unnameable Little Broom
Director
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
Director
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
Director