Stephen Quay Movies

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...

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

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

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

Janacek: Intimate Excursions is a short experimental documentary that attempts to find visual references in the correspondence of Leos Janacek, the...

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

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

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...

The Bug Trainer explores Starewitch’s creative ideas and concepts of his work, along with opinions from film critics and other animation...

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

A man murders his brother in a crime of jealous passion. An adaptation of Franz Kafka's short story of the same name.

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

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

"Maska" is the latest animated film of Quay brothers, directors and puppet animators, with the music composed by Krzysztof Penderecki. The film is an...

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

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...

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

One of the best Czech composers of film soundtracks is often described as a genius of film scores. He was not afraid to experiment and the...

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

To mark the centenary of the great science fiction writer, Stanislaw Lem, we present this tribute by the legendary stop motion animators Stephen and...