Stephen Quay Movies

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Commissioned by Opera North, the Brothers Quay created the installation and film 'She, So Beloved' inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem...

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

VadeMecum is a new short produced by the Palme d’Or-nominated animators Stephen and Timothy Quay. The film shows the life and works of Polish...

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

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

Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.

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

Opening sequence for the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival.

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...

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

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...

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

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