Stephen Quay Movies

An unusual documentary from the Brothers Quay and Keith Griffiths about the history of the Punch and Judy puppet show.

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...

Igor: The Paris Years, one segment of a larger biographical program created for Channel 4 on the life and times of Igor Stravinsky, finds the...

A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.

Short animated film featuring the song "Can't Go Wrong Without You" by His Name Is Alive.

An Interview with The Quay Brothers & Alan Passes April 2006 at Atelier Konick, London

Tom Waits, the brothers Quay, and a dog door.

A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.

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...

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

A bird acts as an alchemist in an enchanted forest, selecting different kinds of wood to combine them in a parquet floor.

In a realm beyond the senses, plants interact with surreal cinematography to chart the course of our character: an entity said to embody the life and...

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

The Bug Trainer explores Starewitch’s creative ideas and concepts of his work, along with opinions from film critics and other animation...

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

Docimentary about the work of the Qway Brothers for their film Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

The movie is set in a technologically developed but, at the same time, feudal world. Beautiful Duenna was created in order to carry out certain...

To mark the centenary of the great science fiction writer, Stanislaw Lem, we present this tribute by the legendary stop motion animators Stephen and...

A farming family and their livestock dance during a much-needed downpour in this Quay Brothers short made for Sesame Street.

A short documentary on the life of Polish author Bruno Schulz by Stephen and Timothy Quay, who adapted his work for their 1986 animated film Street...