Stephen Quay Movies

Enigmatic, stop-motion, animated story of a man's day.

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

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

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

A farming family and their livestock dance during a much-needed downpour in this Quay Brothers short made for Sesame Street.

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

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

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

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...

Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.

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

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.

"Maska" is the latest animated film of Quay brothers, directors and puppet animators, with the music composed by Krzysztof Penderecki. The film is an...

Using the tricks of the Flemish playwright's own trade--puppetry, masks, and a Breughelesque sense of bizarre carnival, the collaborators succeeded...

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...

Opening sequence for the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival.

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

Stop-motion animated short film in which a puppet on a trike captures a puppet bird-man.

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

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...