Stephen Quay Movies

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

Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

In the Renaissance castle of the Polish count - Jan Potocki - in Lancut, the modern traces of a past glory persevere and become visible again at the...

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

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,...

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...

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

Opening sequence for the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival.

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

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

A magnet moves on a floor. A moth beats against a window. A doll child watches the magnet; threads of metal filings gather around the magnet.

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...

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...