Stephen Quay Movies

Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other...

Jozef embarks on a journey via a ghostly train to visit his dying father in a remote Galician sanatorium. Upon arrival, he discovers that the...

In 2015, Christopher Nolan curated a selection of short films by the surrealist animators the Quay Brothers to be distributed as a touring 35mm...

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...

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

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...

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

Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.

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

Afraid of losing his wife, Horatio creates a replica he calls Hortensia. But things don't go as planned... Shot on 35mm and propelled by an...

Documentary looking back at the making of the music video for the Peter Gabriel single 'Sledgehammer'. Involving interviews from various crew members...

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

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

A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.

An unbroken sequence of fragments, last thoughts, elegies and absences by Schubert, Mozart, Wagner, Janáček, Stravinsky, Jacquet de la...

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

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

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