Stephen Quay Movies

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

A man murders his brother in a crime of jealous passion. An adaptation of Franz Kafka's short story of the same name.

The original 54-minute documentary, as broadcast by Channel Four on 20 June 1984, after which the animated links by the Quay Brothers were recompiled...

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

One of the best Czech composers of film soundtracks is often described as a genius of film scores. He was not afraid to experiment and the...

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...

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

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.

Janacek: Intimate Excursions is a short experimental documentary that attempts to find visual references in the correspondence of Leos Janacek, the...

Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...

The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers.

With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink,...

Another short, grainy film from the Quay Brothers. This one has funny singing in it.

In the Renaissance castle of the Polish count - Jan Potocki - in Lancut, the modern traces of a past glory persevere and become visible again at the...

Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.

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...

Stop-motion animated short film in which a puppet on a trike captures a puppet bird-man.

An unbroken sequence of fragments, last thoughts, elegies and absences by Schubert, Mozart, Wagner, Janáček, Stravinsky, Jacquet de la...

"Maska" is the latest animated film of Quay brothers, directors and puppet animators, with the music composed by Krzysztof Penderecki. The film is an...

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