Timothy Quay
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Timothy Quay was born in 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA, as the identical twin of Stephen Quay. He studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and later at the Royal College of Art in London, where he began working with his brother in experimental animation. Timothy has directed and co-directed numerous 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 distinguished by surreal, detailed atmospheres, frozen worlds, and objects full of history, with a constant collaboration alongside Stephen throughout his career.
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Postscriptum. Ruminations on My Craft (2026)
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Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2025)
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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005)
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Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)
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Eurydice: She, So Beloved (2007)
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Stille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988)
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This Unnameable Little Broom (1985)
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The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode (1981)
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Alice in Not So Wonderland (2007)
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Street of Crocodiles (1986)
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Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy (1981)
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The Doll's Breath (2019)
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The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer (1984)
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Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You (1993)
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Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929 (1982)
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The Comb (1991)
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The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (2003)
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The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film (1984)
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Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods (1993)
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Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) (2011)
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Tales of the Brothers Quay (1987)
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Songs for Dead Children (2003)
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Inventorium of Traces (2009)
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The Sandman (2000)
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Stille Nacht V: Dog Door (2001)
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Wonderwood: Comme des garçons (2010)
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The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993 (2000)
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In Absentia (2000)
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Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? (1992)
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Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)
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Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse (2001)
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Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003 (2004)
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11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem (2021)
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Anamorphosis (1993)
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The Calligrapher (1991)
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Ex Voto (1989)
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Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (2013)
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Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers (2007)
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Rain Dance (1988)
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A Fratricide (1981)
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Janáček: Intimate Excursions (1983)
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Maska (2010)
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The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz (2022)
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VadeMecum (2021)
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Ghosts and Whispers (2022)
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Nocturna Artificialia (1979)
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The Summit (1995)
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Kinoteka Ident (2009)
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