Timothy Quay Movies

An Interview with The Quay Brothers & Alan Passes April 2006 at Atelier Konick, London

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

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...

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

An extremely obscure minute-long short by the Brothers Quay in 1989. Animation appears to be done in 'Cutout' style, is abstract and plotless - more...

A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the...

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...

The original 54-minute documentary, as broadcast by Channel Four on 20 June 1984, after which the animated links by the Quay Brothers were recompiled...

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.

In the Renaissance castle of the Polish count - Jan Potocki - in Lancut, the modern traces of a past glory persevere and become visible again at the...

The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This...

An unusual documentary from the Brothers Quay and Keith Griffiths about the history of the Punch and Judy puppet show.

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

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

Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...

Opening sequence for the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival.

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

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...

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...