Stephen Quay Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

Enigmatic, stop-motion, animated story of a man's day.

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...

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

The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This...

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,...

Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.

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

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

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

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