Stephen Quay Movies

  • 2013
    Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

    Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

    Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

    6.12013HD

    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.
  • 2011
    Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)

    Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)

    Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)

    6.32011HD

    A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the...

    Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
  • 2007
    Alice in Not So Wonderland

    Alice in Not So Wonderland

    Alice in Not So Wonderland

    5.72007HD

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

    Alice in Not So Wonderland
  • 2009
    The Art of Time

    The Art of Time

    The Art of Time

    02009HD

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

    The Art of Time
  • 1991
    The Comb

    The Comb

    The Comb

    6.71991HD

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

    The Comb
  • 2021
    VadeMecum

    VadeMecum

    VadeMecum

    72021HD

    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...

    VadeMecum
  • 2000
    The Sandman

    The Sandman

    The Sandman

    62000HD

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

    The Sandman
  • 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

    6.81993HD

    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
  • 1991
    The Calligrapher

    The Calligrapher

    The Calligrapher

    6.41991HD

    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
  • 2009
    Inventorium of Traces

    Inventorium of Traces

    Inventorium of Traces

    52009HD

    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...

    Inventorium of Traces
  • 2015
    Quay

    Quay

    Quay

    62015HD

    In 2015, Christopher Nolan curated a selection of short films by the surrealist animators the Quay Brothers to be distributed as a touring 35mm...

    Quay
  • 1984
    The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

    The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

    The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

    6.81984HD

    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...

    The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
  • 2011
    Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers

    Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers

    Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers

    02011HD

    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...

    Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers
  • 2003
    Songs for Dead Children

    Songs for Dead Children

    Songs for Dead Children

    52003HD

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

    Songs for Dead Children
  • 2010
    Maska

    Maska

    Maska

    72010HD

    "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
  • 1980
    The Falls

    The Falls

    The Falls

    7.21980HD

    The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios of 92 survivors.

    The Falls
  • 2003
    The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection

    The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection

    The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection

    6.12003HD

    A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.

    The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
  • 1988
    Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

    Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

    Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

    6.51988HD

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

    Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
  • 1979
    Nocturna Artificialia

    Nocturna Artificialia

    Nocturna Artificialia

    5.81979HD

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

    Nocturna Artificialia
  • 2022
    Ghosts and Whispers

    Ghosts and Whispers

    Ghosts and Whispers

    02022HD

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

    Ghosts and Whispers