Stephen Quay Movies

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...

A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.

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...

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

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

A magnet moves on a floor. A moth beats against a window. A doll child watches the magnet; threads of metal filings gather around the magnet.

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

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

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...

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

Igor: The Paris Years, one segment of a larger biographical program created for Channel 4 on the life and times of Igor Stravinsky, finds the...

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...

Stop-motion animated short film with a white ball, a rabbit, and a girl, and a voice singing "Are We Still Married".

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

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

A short documentary on the life of Polish author Bruno Schulz by Stephen and Timothy Quay, who adapted his work for their 1986 animated film 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...

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

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...

Inspired by Gustav Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder," made for the Tate Gallery, London, and has never been released. "There's something we did for the...