Stephen Quay
AKA:
1.9523
1947-06-17
Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Crew Roles
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Director
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Director
Tales of the Brothers Quay
Director
Nocturna Artificialia
Director
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
Director
This Unnameable Little Broom
Director
Street of Crocodiles
Director
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Director
The Comb
Director
Anamorphosis
Director
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
Director
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
Director
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
Director
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Director
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
Director
Songs for Dead Children
Director
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
Director
In Absentia
Director
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
Director
VadeMecum
Director
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Director
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Cinematography
Maska
Director
The Calligrapher
Director
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
Director
The Summit
Director
The Comb
Writer
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Sound
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Editor
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Animation
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Writer
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
Director of Photography
This Unnameable Little Broom
Writer
This Unnameable Little Broom
Director of Photography
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Animation
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Writer
Janáček: Intimate Excursions
Director
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
Writer
The Calligrapher
Animation
The Comb
Animation
The Comb
Art Direction
The Comb
Camera Operator
The Comb
Editor
Anamorphosis
Animation
Anamorphosis
Art Direction
Anamorphosis
Camera Operator
Anamorphosis
Editor
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
Editor
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
Director
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
Set Designer
Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929
Director
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
Director
Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003
Director
Street of Crocodiles
Editor
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Writer
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
Director
Ghosts and Whispers
Director
Ghosts and Whispers
Animation
Rain Dance
Director
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Director
Inventorium of Traces
Director
Inventorium of Traces
Director of Photography
Inventorium of Traces
Editor
Inventorium of Traces
Sound Designer
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Production Design
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Director
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Screenplay
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Animation
The Sandman
Director
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz
Director
Ex Voto
Director
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Director
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Writer
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Cinematography
Kinoteka Ident
Director
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
Director
Quay
Thanks
Nocturna Artificialia
Cinematography
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Editor
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Sound
The Doll's Breath
Director
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
Director
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
Animation
Street of Crocodiles
Writer
Street of Crocodiles
Production Design
Street of Crocodiles
Animation
The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993
Director
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
Director
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
Writer
A Fratricide
Director
A Fratricide
Animation
Maska
Writer
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