Timothy Quay

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

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

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

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

One of several collaborative dance films by the Brothers Quay & (dancer, choreographer) William Tuckett. Little enough info around on line, ...

A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on ...

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

Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.

Short animated film featuring the song “Can’t Go Wrong Without You” by His Name Is Alive.

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

A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.

With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink, ...

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

Janacek: Intimate Excursions is a short experimental documentary that attempts to find visual references in the correspondence of Leos Janacek, ...

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 ...

A man murders his brother in a crime of jealous passion. An adaptation of Franz Kafka’s short story of the same name.

Using the tricks of the Flemish playwright’s own trade–puppetry, masks, and a Breughelesque sense of bizarre carnival, the ...

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