Stephen Quay Movies
- 2015
Quay
Quay62015HD
In 2015, Christopher Nolan curated a selection of short films by the surrealist animators the Quay Brothers to be distributed as a touring 35mm...
- 1986
Street of Crocodiles
Street of Crocodiles6.51986HD
A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.
- 1995
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life7.71995HD
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other...
- 1984
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer6.8081984HD
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...
- 2005
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes6.12005HD
Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.
- 1988
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet6.3231988HD
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.
- 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)6.32011HD
A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the...
- 2000
In Absentia
In Absentia6.32000HD
A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on her...
- 1980
The Falls
The Falls7.21980HD
The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios of 92 survivors.
- 1993
Anamorphosis
Anamorphosis6.5481993HD
The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This...
- 1979
Nocturna Artificialia
Nocturna Artificialia5.7861979HD
Enigmatic, stop-motion, animated story of a man's day.
- 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 Collection6.12003HD
A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.
- 1987
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies6.5481987HD
Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.
- 2015
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin62015HD
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...
- 1992
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?6.0741992HD
Stop-motion animated short film with a white ball, a rabbit, and a girl, and a voice singing "Are We Still Married".
- 1985
This Unnameable Little Broom
This Unnameable Little Broom6.1461985HD
Stop-motion animated short film in which a puppet on a trike captures a puppet bird-man.
- 1991
The Comb
The Comb6.7041991HD
A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.
- 1982
Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929
Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-192961982HD
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...
- 1993
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods61993HD
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...
- 2019
The Doll's Breath
The Doll's Breath02019HD
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...