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.
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
(Director)
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
(Director)
Tales of the Brothers Quay
(Director)
Nocturna Artificialia
(Director)
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
(Director)
This Unnameable Little Broom
(Director)
Street of Crocodiles
(Director)
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
(Director)
The Comb
(Director)
Anamorphosis
(Director)
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
(Director)
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
(Director)
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
(Director)
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
(Director)
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
(Director)
Songs for Dead Children
(Director)
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
(Director)
In Absentia
(Director)
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
(Director)
VadeMecum
(Director)
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
(Director)
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
(Cinematography)
Maska
(Director)
The Calligrapher
(Director)
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
(Director)
The Summit
(Director)
The Comb
(Writer)
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
(Sound)
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
(Editor)
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
(Animation)
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
(Writer)
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
(Director of Photography)
This Unnameable Little Broom
(Writer)
This Unnameable Little Broom
(Director of Photography)
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
(Animation)
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
(Writer)
Janáček: Intimate Excursions
(Director)
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
(Writer)
The Calligrapher
(Animation)
The Comb
(Animation)
The Comb
(Art Direction)
The Comb
(Camera Operator)
The Comb
(Editor)
Anamorphosis
(Animation)
Anamorphosis
(Art Direction)
Anamorphosis
(Camera Operator)
Anamorphosis
(Editor)
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
(Editor)
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
(Director)
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
(Set Designer)
Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929
(Director)
Maska
(Writer)
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
(Director)
Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003
(Director)
Street of Crocodiles
(Editor)
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
(Writer)
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
(Director)
Ghosts and Whispers
(Director)
Ghosts and Whispers
(Animation)
Rain Dance
(Director)
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
(Director)
Inventorium of Traces
(Director)
Inventorium of Traces
(Director of Photography)
Inventorium of Traces
(Editor)
Inventorium of Traces
(Sound Designer)
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
(Production Design)
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
(Director)
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
(Screenplay)
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
(Animation)
The Sandman
(Director)
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz
(Director)
Ex Voto
(Director)
Alice in Not So Wonderland
(Director)
Alice in Not So Wonderland
(Writer)
Alice in Not So Wonderland
(Cinematography)
Kinoteka Ident
(Director)
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
(Director)
Quay
(Thanks)
Nocturna Artificialia
(Cinematography)
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
(Editor)
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
(Sound)
The Doll's Breath
(Director)
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
(Director)
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
(Animation)
Street of Crocodiles
(Writer)
Street of Crocodiles
(Production Design)
Street of Crocodiles
(Animation)
The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993
(Director)
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
(Director)
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
(Writer)
A Fratricide
(Director)
A Fratricide
(Animation)