Name
Stephen Quay
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1947-06-17 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Known For
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Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Ben...
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A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds hi...
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The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinatin...
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In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat,...
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With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen f...
- 2010 Inside The Institute
- 2009 The Bug Trainer as Self - stop-motion animator
- 2015 The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
- 2015 Quay as Self
- 2009 The Art of Time
- 1982 The Falls as Ipson Fallari
- 2003 The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection as Librarian
- 2017 The Music of Zdeněk Liška as Self
- 2006 The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
- 2011 Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers as Self
