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

Timothy Quay

Timothy Quay was born in 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA, as the identical twin of Stephen Quay. He studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and later at the Royal College of Art in London, where he began working with his brother in experimental animation. Timothy has directed and co-directed numerous 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 distinguished by surreal, detailed atmospheres, frozen worlds, and objects full of history, with a constant collaboration alongside Stephen throughout his career.

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• 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) – Pulat Fallari
• Stille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988) – Director
• The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005) – Director
• The Comb (1991) – Director
• Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? (1992) – Director
• In Absentia (2000) – Director
• This Unnameable Little Broom (1985) – Director
• Nocturna Artificialia (1979) – Director
• Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988) – Director
• Anamorphosis (1993) – 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
• Maska (2010) – Director
• The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (2003) – 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) – Editor
• Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929 (1982) – Director
• Songs for Dead Children (2003) – Director
• Alice in Not So Wonderland (2007) – Director
• 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) – Director
• The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode (1981) – Director
• Inventorium Śladów (2009) – Director
• 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