Stephen Quay

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

0.7508

Gender

Male

Birthday

17-Jun-1947

Age

(79 years old)

Place of Birth

Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA

Also Known As
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Stephen Quay

Biography

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.


Credits

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 (2003) Character: Librarian
A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin (2015) Character: N/A
Guy Maddin, who has been nicknamed the Canadian David Lynch, is undoubtedly one of the last remaining Magi of cinema. Despite living in the middle of the digital age, this heretical director hailing from the snowy plains of Canada has spent 25 years transposing the uncommon and the uncanny onto screens over-saturated with naturalistic imagery. A lover of primitive cinema, he has cunningly summoned the light-and-shadow techniques and experimentations of the Golden Age of film to resuscitate a unique cinematographic language which plays with the spectator’s unconscious by means of visual trickery as disturbing as it is absurd. In an attitude as playful at that Maddin’s films this documentary follows the mediumistic experiments of this master of illusion, filmed during the ‘’spirit’’ shootings he presented in Europe.
The Art of Time The Art of Time (2009) Character: N/A
Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter the uniform sense of time promoted by our technology-driven society.
The Making of The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes" (2006) Character: N/A
An Interview with The Quay Brothers & Alan Passes April 2006 at Atelier Konick, London
Inside The Institute Inside The Institute (2010) Character: N/A
Docimentary about the work of the Qway Brothers for their film Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers (2011) Character: Self
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 Physicians of Philadelphia, the first film the internationally-known filmmakers have made in the U.S.A.
Sledgehammer Revealed Sledgehammer Revealed (2026) Character: Self
Documentary looking back at the making of the music video for the Peter Gabriel single 'Sledgehammer'. Involving interviews from various crew members along with Peter Gabriel. Including a restored 4K version of the iconic music video.
Quay Quay (2015) Character: Self
In 2015, Christopher Nolan curated a selection of short films by the surrealist animators the Quay Brothers to be distributed as a touring 35mm presentation. The three films—"In Absentia" (2000), "The Comb" (1991) and "Street of Crocodiles" (1986)—were accompanied by this brief portrait of the brothers at work in their London studio.
Vabzdžių dresuotojas Vabzdžių dresuotojas (2009) Character: Self - stop-motion animator
The Bug Trainer explores Starewitch’s creative ideas and concepts of his work, along with opinions from film critics and other animation directors to help us understand why he is considered one of the greatest creators of the animation world.
Hudba Zdeněk Liška Hudba Zdeněk Liška (2017) Character: Self
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 timelessness of his work is proven by the admiration of the world, including the generation who came to know his music only after his death.
The Falls The Falls (1982) Character: Ipson Fallari
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 occurrence. A documentarian analyses the lives of all the survivors whose surnames begin with FALL to uncover the truth behind the event.



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