Directing · geboren 1947-06-17 · Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA

Stephen Quay

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.

Bekannt aus

• Street of Crocodiles (1986) – Director
• Quay (2015) – Self
• Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995) – Director
• The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer (1984) – Director
• The Falls (1982) – Ipson Fallari
• Stille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988) – Director
• The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005) – Director
• Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? (1992) – Director
• The Comb (1991) – Director
• In Absentia (2000) – Director
• This Unnameable Little Broom (1985) – Director
• Nocturna Artificialia (1979) – Director
• Anamorphosis (1993) – Director
• Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988) – Director
• Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods (1993) – Director
• Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You (1993) – Director
• The Calligrapher (1991) – Director
• Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą (2025) – Director
• The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (2003) – Librarian
• Maska (2010) – Director
• Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) (2011) – Director
• Tales of the Brothers Quay (1987) – Director
• Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (2013) – Animation
• Stille Nacht V: Dog Door (2001) – Director
• Janacek: Intimate Excursions (1983) – Director
• Eurydice: She, So Beloved (2007) – Director
• Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929 (1982) – Director
• Songs for Dead Children (2003) – Director
• Alice in Not So Wonderland (2007) – Writer
• Vabzdžių dresuotojas (2009) – Self - stop-motion animator
• Hudba Zdeněk Liška (2017) – Self
• The Summit (1995) – Director
• The Sandman (2000) – Director
• Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy (1981) – Animation
• The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode (1981) – Director
• Inventorium Śladów (2009) – Sound Designer
• Wonderwood: Comme des garçons (2010) – Director
• The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin (2015)
• Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers (2007) – Director
• The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film (1984) – Director