Cinematography: Timothy Quay

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Plot A man closes up a lecture hall; he reaches into a box and snips the string holding a gaunt puppet. Released, the puppet warily explores the darkened rooms about him....

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Cast Joy Constaninides

Plot THE COMB opens in the shadowy bedroom of a sleeping beauty and seems to enter her mind and burrow into her dreams. Based on a fragment of text by the...

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay · Keith Griffiths

Plot 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 and toys...

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Cast Witold Scheybal

Plot The Quay Brothers explore the technique of Anamorphosis (a type of visual trickery where a picture seen at certain angles can reveal a hidden image that is not noticeable when...

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Plot Oscillating hands each hold a pen; a man made of wire has a malevolent look and an oscillating eye as he pokes at a bump on his forehead

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Cast Marlene Kaminsky

Plot 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...

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay · Keith Griffiths

Plot A red-clothed puppet lives in a room with a missing wall. He rides a tricycle. Gadgets surround him. He eats dandelion tufts. A painting lies on a table in the...

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Plot An enigmatic story told in seven chapters, each introduced by an elliptical sentence on a title card. A man is in an apartment. He goes outside where a red tram...

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Plot Comrade Mayakovsky, the Bolshevic poet and dramatist, visits fellow Russian and great composer Igor Stravinsky at his pianola workshop in Paris. Then with the poet Cocteau, this trio of individualists...

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Cast Magdalena Cielecka

Plot Beautiful Duenna was created in order to carry out a certain mission. However, she will be forced to choose...

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Plot 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, thinks, then...

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Direction Keith Griffiths · Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Plot Puppet film which interprets the music of Janacek, incorporating music from Sinfonietta, From the House of the Dead, the Cunning Little Vixen, the Makropulos Case, Galgolitic Mass and other works.

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Plot 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 tones of...

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Cast César Sarachu

Plot Working in the stop-motion puppet animation technique, for which they are best known, this short film by the Quay Brothers revolves around the work and life of Uruguyan writer Felisberto...

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Cast Barnaby Stone · Jonathan Stone

Plot Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay