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Stephen Quay
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.
As director
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Ghosts and Whispers
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz
VadeMecum
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
The Doll's Breath
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Maska
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
Inventorium of Traces
Kinoteka Ident
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
Alice in Not So Wonderland
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003
Songs for Dead Children
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
In Absentia
The Sandman
The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
The Summit
Anamorphosis
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
As actor
Sledgehammer Revealed
The Music of Zdeněk Liška
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
Quay
Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers
Inside The Institute
The Bug Trainer
The Art of Time
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
The Falls