Stephen Quay
Directing
Biography
Stephen Quay was born in 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied illustration at the Philadelphia College of Art and later continued his education at the Royal College of Art in London, where he met his twin brother Timothy and began collaborating in animation. Together, they founded Atelier Koninck and produced their first experimental short films in the late 1970s. Throughout his career, Stephen has directed and co-directed 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). His work is characterized by dreamlike, detailed, and symbolic worlds, often using dolls and carefully crafted objects to create surreal and unsettling atmospheres.
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Movies (57)
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass2025Directing- The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz2022Directing
Ghosts and Whispers2022Directing
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem2021Directing
VadeMecum2021Directing
The Doll's Breath2019Directing- The Music of Zdeněk Liška2017Self
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin2015
Quay2015Self
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.2013Directing
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)2011Directing
Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers2011Self
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons2010Directing
Maska2010Directing
Inside The Institute2010
The Art of Time2009
Kinoteka Ident2009Directing
The Bug Trainer2009Self - stop-motion animator- Inventorium of Traces2009Directing
Eurydice: She, So Beloved2007Directing
Alice in Not So Wonderland2007Directing
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers2007Directing
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"2006
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes2005Directing
Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-20032004Directing
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection2003Librarian
Songs for Dead Children2003Directing
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse2001Directing
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door2001Directing
The Sandman2000Directing