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 (2...
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.
Movies (Cast)
The Falls
Series (Cast)
Directed
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Tales of the Brothers Quay
The Comb
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
Nocturna Artificialia
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
Street of Crocodiles
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
This Unnameable Little Broom
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
Songs for Dead Children
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
In Absentia
Maska
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
The Summit
The Calligrapher
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
The Sandman
Ex Voto
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
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