Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
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Timothy Quay
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About 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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48 directing credits · Includes cameos and other appearances where listed.
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Director, Writer, Production Design
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Director, Writer
The Doll's Breath
Director
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
Director, Director of Photography
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
Director, Animation
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
Set Designer, Editor, Director
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
Director, Animation
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Director, Sound, Animation, Editor
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
Director, Writer
Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929
Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929
Director
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Director, Animation, Camera Operator
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
Director, Writer
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Director, Cinematography, Writer
This Unnameable Little Broom
Director, Director of Photography, Writer
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
Director
Inventorium of Traces
Inventorium of Traces
Editor, Director, Director of Photography, Sound Designer
Street of Crocodiles
Director, Editor, Animation, Writer, Production Design
The Sandman
Director
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
Director, Animation, Camera Operator
In Absentia
Director, Animation
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
Director, Camera Operator, Animation
The Calligrapher
Director, Animation
Tales of the Brothers Quay
Director
Songs for Dead Children
Director
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Director, Cinematography, Animation, Decorator
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
Director
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Animation, Writer, Director
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
Director
The Comb
Director, Writer, Camera Operator, Art Direction, Editor, Animation
Rain Dance
Director
Anamorphosis
Director, Art Direction, Editor, Camera Operator, Animation, Decorator
The Summit
Director
VadeMecum
Director
Maska
Director, Writer
Ghosts and Whispers
Director, Animation
A Fratricide
A Fratricide
Director, Animation
Nocturna Artificialia
Director, Cinematography
Ex Voto
Director
Kinoteka Ident
Director