Stephen Quay

Known for directing

Born June 17, 1947 (age 79) · Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA

About

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.

Acting · 6 Behind the camera · 48

Postscriptum. Ruminations on My CraftDirector

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the HourglassScreenplay

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human LifeDirector

The Piano Tuner of EarthquakesDirector

Eurydice: She, So BelovedDirector

Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?Director

The Doll's BreathDirector

Alice in Not So WonderlandDirector

Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna WoodsDirector

Stille Nacht I: DramoletDirector

Rehearsals for Extinct AnatomiesDirector

This Unnameable Little BroomDirector

Tales of the Brothers QuayDirector

Songs for Dead ChildrenDirector

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

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

Inventorium of Traces

Inventorium of TracesDirector

The Cabinet of Jan ŠvankmajerDirector

The CombDirector

Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without YouDirector

Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical TragedyDirector

The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of FilmDirector

Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929

Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929Director

Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.Writer

The Eternal Day of Michel de GhelderodeWriter

The SandmanDirector

Street of CrocodilesDirector

Stille Nacht V: Dog DoorDirector

Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003Director

The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993Director

11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet LemDirector

Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay BrothersDirector

The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz

The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno SchulzDirector

Wonderwood: Comme des garçonsDirector

Sonic Cinema: SparklehorseDirector

MaskaDirector

Rain DanceDirector

In AbsentiaDirector

A FratricideDirector

Kinoteka IdentDirector

Janáček: Intimate Excursions

Janáček: Intimate ExcursionsDirector

The CalligrapherDirector

AnamorphosisDirector

Nocturna ArtificialiaDirector

VadeMecumDirector

Ex VotoDirector

The SummitDirector

Ghosts and WhispersDirector

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