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Director
Timothy Quay
- Born June 17, 1947 in 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).
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His work is distinguished by surreal, detailed atmospheres, frozen worlds, and objects full of history, with a constant collaboration alongside Stephen throughout his career.
Known for
Street of Crocodiles1986
Quay2015
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life1995
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer1984
The Falls1982
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes2005
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet1988
The Comb1991
Filmography
- 2026Sledgehammer RevealedFilmSelf
- 2026Postscriptum. Ruminations on My CraftFilmDirector
- 2025Sanatorium Under the Sign of the HourglassFilmScreenplay, Animation, Director, Editor, Sound
- 2022The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno SchulzFilmDirector
- 2022Ghosts and WhispersFilmDirector, Animation
- 2021VadeMecumFilmDirector
- 202111 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet LemFilmDirector
- 2019The Doll's BreathFilmDirector
- 2017The Music of Zdeněk LiškaFilmSelf
- 2015QuayFilmSelf, Thanks
- 2015The 1000 Eyes of Dr MaddinFilm
- 2013Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.FilmAnimation, Writer, Director
- 2011Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)FilmDirector, Sound, Animation, Editor
- 2011Behind the Scenes with the Quay BrothersFilmSelf
- 2010MaskaFilmDirector, Writer
- 2010Wonderwood: Comme des garçonsFilmDirector
- 2009The Bug TrainerFilmSelf - stop-motion animator
- 2009Inventorium of TracesFilmEditor, Director, Director of Photography, Sound Designer
- 2009The Art of TimeFilmSelf
- 2009Kinoteka IdentFilmDirector
- 2007Eurydice: She, So BelovedFilmSet Designer, Editor, Director
- 2007Alice in Not So WonderlandFilmDirector, Cinematography, Writer
- 2007Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay BrothersFilmDirector
- 2006The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"Film
- 2005The Piano Tuner of EarthquakesFilmDirector, Writer, Production Design
- 2004Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003FilmDirector
- 2003The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical CollectionFilmDirector, Animation
- 2003Songs for Dead ChildrenFilmDirector
- 2001Stille Nacht V: Dog DoorFilmDirector, Writer
- 2001Sonic Cinema: SparklehorseFilmDirector
- 2000In AbsentiaFilmDirector, Animation
- 2000The SandmanFilmDirector
- 2000The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993FilmDirector
- 1995Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human LifeFilmDirector, Writer
- 1995The SummitFilmDirector
- 1993AnamorphosisFilmDirector, Art Direction, Editor, Camera Operator, Animation, Decorator
- 1993Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna WoodsFilmDirector, Animation, Camera Operator
- 1993Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without YouFilmDirector, Camera Operator, Animation
- 1992Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?FilmDirector, Animation, Camera Operator
- 1991The CombFilmDirector, Writer, Camera Operator, Art Direction, Editor, Animation
- 1991The CalligrapherFilmDirector, Animation
- 1989Ex VotoFilmDirector
- 1988Stille Nacht I: DramoletFilmDirector
- 1988Rehearsals for Extinct AnatomiesFilmDirector, Cinematography, Animation, Decorator
- 1988Rain DanceFilmDirector
- 1987Tales of the Brothers QuayFilmDirector
- 1986Street of CrocodilesFilmDirector, Editor, Animation, Writer, Production Design
- 1985This Unnameable Little BroomFilmDirector, Director of Photography, Writer
- 1984The Cabinet of Jan ŠvankmajerFilmDirector, Director of Photography
- 1984The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of FilmFilmDirector
- 1983Janáček: Intimate ExcursionsFilmDirector
- 1982The FallsFilmPulat Fallari
- 1982Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929FilmDirector
- 1981Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical TragedyFilmDirector, Animation
- 1981The Eternal Day of Michel de GhelderodeFilmDirector, Writer
- 1981A FratricideFilmDirector, Animation
- 1979Nocturna ArtificialiaFilmDirector, Cinematography