Direction: Timothy Quay

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Synopsis 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 Mark Rylance · Alice Krige · Gottfried John · Daniel Smith

Synopsis Brilliant English animators The Brothers Quay create their first feature-length live-action film in this tale of a dilapidated boarding school for the teaching of servants run by a brother and...

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Cast Joy Constaninides

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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

Cast Amira Casar · Gottfried John · Assumpta Serna · César Sarachu

Synopsis The story concerns Malvina (Amira Casar), a famous opera singer abducted on the eve of her wedding by the obsessive Dr. Droz (Gottfried John), who takes her away to the...

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay · Keith Griffiths

Synopsis 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

Cast Billy Ray Gallion · Stephen Quay

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 Simon Keenlyside · Kenneth Tharp · Zanaida Yanowsky

Direction Stephen Quay · Timothy Quay

Synopsis A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a son, Jozef, visiting his dying Father in a remote Galician Sanatorium. Upon arrival Jozef finds the Sanatorium entirely moribund...

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Cast Magdalena Cielecka

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 Stephen Quay · Timothy Quay