TQ

Timothy Quay

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

Known For

  • Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life
  • Street of Crocodiles
  • The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes
  • The Comb
  • Stille Nacht: Dramolet
  • Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
  • Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
  • The Falls
  • The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer
  • In Absentia
  • This Unnameable Little Broom
  • 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
  • Tales from Vienna Woods: Stille Nacht III.
  • Nocturna Artificialia
  • Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
  • Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
  • Songs for Dead Children

Filmography

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