Stephen Quay Movies

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

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...

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

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

Documentary looking back at the making of the music video for the Peter Gabriel single 'Sledgehammer'. Involving interviews from various crew members...

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...

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

A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the...

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

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.

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

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...

Inspired by Gustav Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder," made for the Tate Gallery, London, and has never been released. "There's something we did for the...

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

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, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.

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

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

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,...

This short documentary documents the making of the film the Quay Brothers shot at, and on the subject of, the Mütter Museum of The College of...