Directing · b. 1947 · Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA

Timothy Quay

Biography

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...

Directed
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass 2025 Ghosts and Whispers 2022 The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz 2022 VadeMecum 2021 11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem 2021 The Doll's Breath 2019 Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. 2013 Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) 2011 Maska 2010 Wonderwood: Comme des garçons 2010 Inventorium of Traces 2009 Kinoteka Ident 2009 Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers 2007 Eurydice: She, So Beloved 2007 Alice in Not So Wonderland 2007 The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes 2005 Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003 2004 Songs for Dead Children 2003 The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection 2003 Stille Nacht V: Dog Door 2001 Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse 2001 In Absentia 2000 The Sandman 2000 The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993 2000 Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life 1995 The Summit 1995 Anamorphosis 1993 Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods 1993 Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You 1993 Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? 1992 The Comb 1991 The Calligrapher 1991 Ex Voto 1989 Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies 1988 Stille Nacht I: Dramolet 1988 Rain Dance 1988 Tales of the Brothers Quay 1987 Street of Crocodiles 1986 This Unnameable Little Broom 1985 The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer 1984 The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film 1984 Janáček: Intimate Excursions 1983 Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929 1982 Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy 1981 The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode 1981 A Fratricide 1981 Nocturna Artificialia 1979
Cinematography
Inventorium of Traces 2009 This Unnameable Little Broom 1985 The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer 1984
Acting
The Music of Zdeněk Liška Self 2017 The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin 2015 Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers Self 2011 The Bug Trainer Self - stop-motion animator 2009 The Art of Time Self 2009 The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes" 2006 The Falls Pulat Fallari 1982
Other Credits
Quay Thanks 2015
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