Stephen Quay Movies

1981
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
6.71981HD
Using the tricks of the Flemish playwright's own trade--puppetry, masks, and a Breughelesque sense of bizarre carnival, the collaborators succeeded...
2007
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Alice in Not So Wonderland
6.22007HD
The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers.
2001
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
5.82001HD
Tom Waits, the brothers Quay, and a dog door.
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
6.22003HD
A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.
1984
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
6.91984HD
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...
1986
Street of Crocodiles
Street of Crocodiles
6.61986HD
A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.
1984
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
61984HD
The original 54-minute documentary, as broadcast by Channel Four on 20 June 1984, after which the animated links by the Quay Brothers were recompiled...
2000
The Sandman
The Sandman
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One of several collaborative dance films by the Brothers Quay & (dancer, choreographer) William Tuckett. Little enough info around on line, but...
1982
The Falls
The Falls
7.31982HD
Told in the form of a mock documentary in 92 short parts, nineteen million people are left obsessed with birds and flight following a strange...
2000
In Absentia
In Absentia
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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...
1988
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
6.61988HD
Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.
2006
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
02006HD
An Interview with The Quay Brothers & Alan Passes April 2006 at Atelier Konick, London
2010
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
62010HD
A bird acts as an alchemist in an enchanted forest, selecting different kinds of wood to combine them in a parquet floor.
1992
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
6.11992HD
Stop-motion animated short film with a white ball, a rabbit, and a girl, and a voice singing "Are We Still Married".
2013
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...
2021
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
62021HD
To mark the centenary of the great science fiction writer, Stanislaw Lem, we present this tribute by the legendary stop motion animators Stephen and...
2009
The Bug Trainer
The Bug Trainer
42009HD
The Bug Trainer explores Starewitch’s creative ideas and concepts of his work, along with opinions from film critics and other animation...
1988
Rain Dance
Rain Dance
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A farming family and their livestock dance during a much-needed downpour in this Quay Brothers short made for Sesame Street.
2010
Inside The Institute
Inside The Institute
02010HD
Docimentary about the work of the Qway Brothers for their film Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
1993
Anamorphosis
Anamorphosis
6.61993HD
The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This...