Timothy Quay
Directing · Born 1947-06-17 · Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
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 history, with a constant collaboration alongside Stephen throughout his career.
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Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass 2025
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The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz 2022
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Ghosts and Whispers 2022
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11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem 2021
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VadeMecum 2021
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The Doll's Breath 2019
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Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. 2013
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Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) 2011
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Wonderwood: Comme des garçons 2010
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Maska 2010
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Kinoteka Ident 2009
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Inventorium of Traces 2009
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Eurydice: She, So Beloved 2007
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Alice in Not So Wonderland 2007
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Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers 2007
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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes 2005
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Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003 2004
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The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection 2003
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Songs for Dead Children 2003
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Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse 2001
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Stille Nacht V: Dog Door 2001
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The Sandman 2000
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In Absentia 2000
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The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993 2000
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Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life 1995
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The Summit 1995
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Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You 1993
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Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods 1993
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Anamorphosis 1993
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Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? 1992
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The Comb 1991
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The Calligrapher 1991
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Ex Voto 1989
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Rain Dance 1988
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Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies 1988
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Stille Nacht I: Dramolet 1988
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Tales of the Brothers Quay 1987
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Street of Crocodiles 1986
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This Unnameable Little Broom 1985
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The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer 1984
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The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film 1984
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Janáček: Intimate Excursions 1983
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Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929 1982
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A Fratricide 1981
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Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy 1981
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The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode 1981
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Nocturna Artificialia 1979
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