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Stephen Quay

Director, Writer, Editor, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn June 17, 1947 (78 years)
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

  • Street of Crocodiles
  • Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life
  • The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes
  • The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer
  • The Comb
  • In Absentia
  • Stille Nacht: Dramolet
  • The Falls
  • This Unnameable Little Broom
  • Tales from Vienna Woods: Stille Nacht III.
  • Nocturna Artificialia
  • Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
  • Are We Still Married?
  • The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
  • Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
  • Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
  • Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
  • Songs for Dead Children
  • Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

Filmography

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