Timothy Quay Movies

  • 2026
    Sledgehammer Revealed

    Sledgehammer Revealed

    Sledgehammer Revealed

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    Documentary looking back at the making of the music video for the Peter Gabriel single 'Sledgehammer'. Involving interviews from various crew members...

    Sledgehammer Revealed
  • 2026
    Postscriptum. Ruminations on My Craft

    Postscriptum. Ruminations on My Craft

    Postscriptum. Ruminations on My Craft

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    Postscriptum. Ruminations on My Craft
  • 2025
    Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

    Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

    Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

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    Jozef embarks on a journey via a ghostly train to visit his dying father in a remote Galician sanatorium. Upon arrival, he discovers that the...

    Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
  • 1995
    Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

    Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

    Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

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

    Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
  • 2005
    The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

    The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

    The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

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

    The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
  • 2015
    Quay

    Quay

    Quay

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    In 2015, Christopher Nolan curated a selection of short films by the surrealist animators the Quay Brothers to be distributed as a touring 35mm...

    Quay
  • 2007
    Eurydice: She, So Beloved

    Eurydice: She, So Beloved

    Eurydice: She, So Beloved

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    Commissioned by Opera North, the Brothers Quay created the installation and film 'She, So Beloved' inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem...

    Eurydice: She, So Beloved
  • 2019
    The Doll's Breath

    The Doll's Breath

    The Doll's Breath

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    Afraid of losing his wife, Horatio creates a replica he calls Hortensia. But things don't go as planned... Shot on 35mm and propelled by an...

    The Doll's Breath
  • 2011
    Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)

    Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)

    Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)

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

    Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
  • 1992
    Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?

    Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?

    Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?

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    Stop-motion animated short film with a white ball, a rabbit, and a girl, and a voice singing "Are We Still Married".

    Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
  • 2007
    Alice in Not So Wonderland

    Alice in Not So Wonderland

    Alice in Not So Wonderland

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

    Alice in Not So Wonderland
  • 1993
    Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods

    Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods

    Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods

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    Near an extraordinary chair with many legs, a hand is visible gripping an edge. The hand is weathered, the fingers cracked and scarred. The end of a...

    Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
  • 1988
    Stille Nacht I: Dramolet

    Stille Nacht I: Dramolet

    Stille Nacht I: Dramolet

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    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.

    Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
  • 1988
    Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

    Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

    Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

    6.61988HD

    Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.

    Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
  • 2015
    The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin

    The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin

    The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin

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    Guy Maddin, who has been nicknamed the Canadian David Lynch, is undoubtedly one of the last remaining Magi of cinema. Despite living in the middle of...

    The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
  • 1985
    This Unnameable Little Broom

    This Unnameable Little Broom

    This Unnameable Little Broom

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

    This Unnameable Little Broom
  • 2009
    Inventorium of Traces

    Inventorium of Traces

    Inventorium of Traces

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    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...

    Inventorium of Traces
  • 2003
    Songs for Dead Children

    Songs for Dead Children

    Songs for Dead Children

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    Inspired by Gustav Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder," made for the Tate Gallery, London, and has never been released. "There's something we did for the...

    Songs for Dead Children
  • 2003
    The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection

    The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection

    The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection

    6.22003HD

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

    The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
  • 2000
    The Sandman

    The Sandman

    The Sandman

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

    The Sandman