Editing Brothers Quay

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'''Stephen and Timothy Quay''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|w|eɪ}} {{respell|KWAY|'}}; born June 17, 1947) are American [[identical twin]] brothers and [[stop-motion animation|stop-motion animators]] who are better known as the '''Brothers Quay''' or '''Quay Brothers'''. They received the 1998 [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design]] for their work on the play ''The Chairs''.<ref>[https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-organization/quay-brothers-25233/#awards Quay Brothers-Broadway Organization-IBDB]</ref>

==Careers==
The Quay Brothers reside and work in [[England]], having moved there in 1969 to study at the [[Royal College of Art]], [[London]]<ref name="GreenCine">{{cite web | last =Marlow | first =Jonathan | title =Tales from the Brothers Quay | publisher =GreenCine | date =2006-11-17 | url =http://www.greencine.com/article?action=view&articleID=365 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070115050820/http://www.greencine.com/article?action=view&articleID=365 | url-status =dead | archive-date =2007-01-15 }}</ref> after studying illustration (Timothy) and film (Stephen) at the Philadelphia College of Art, now the [[University of the Arts (Philadelphia)|University of the Arts]] in Philadelphia. In England, they made their first short films, which no longer exist after the only prints were irreparably damaged.<ref>[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/498256/index.html BFI Screenonline]</ref> They spent some time in the [[Netherlands]] in the 1970s and then returned to England, where they teamed up with another Royal College student, Keith Griffiths, who produced all of their films. In 1980, the trio formed Koninck Studios, which is currently based in London's Old Street area of Hackney.

==Style==
The Brothers' works from 1979 to the present show a wide range of often esoteric influences, starting with the Polish animators [[Walerian Borowczyk]] and [[Jan Lenica]] and continuing with the writers [[Franz Kafka]], [[Bruno Schulz]], [[Robert Walser]] and [[Michel de Ghelderode]], puppeteers [[Wladyslaw Starewicz]] and Czech Richard Teschner and Czech composers [[Leoš Janáček]], [[Zdeněk Liška]] and Polish Leszek Jankowski, the last of whom has created many original scores for their work. Czech animator [[Jan Švankmajer]], for whom they named one of their films (''[[The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer]]''), is also frequently cited as a major influence, but they actually discovered his work relatively late, in 1983, by which time their characteristic style and preoccupations had been fully formed.<ref name="Svankmajer">{{cite web| last =Quay| first = Brothers| title =Introduction to 'The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer' | publisher =BFI DVD Publishing | date= 2007-06-26 | url =http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_4543.html | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20071201210554/http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_4543.html | url-status =dead | archive-date =December 1, 2007 }}</ref> In a panel discussion with Daniel Bird and Andrzej Klimowski at the Aurora festival in Norwich, they emphasized that a more significant influence on their work was Walerian Borowczyk, who made both animation shorts and live-action features.

Most of their animation films feature puppets made of doll parts and other organic and inorganic materials, often partially disassembled, in a dark, moody atmosphere. Perhaps their best known work is ''[[Street of Crocodiles]]'' (1986), based on the short story of the same name by the Polish author and artist Bruno Schulz. This short film was selected by director and animator [[Terry Gilliam]] as one of the ten best animated films of all time,<ref name="The Guardian">{{cite news| last=Gilliam | first=Terry | title=Terry Gilliam Picks the Ten Best Animated Films of All Time | newspaper=The Guardian | date=2001-04-27 | url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,479022,00.html }}</ref> and critic Jonathan Romney included it on his list of the ten best films in any medium (for ''[[Sight and Sound]]''{{'}}s critics' poll of 2002).<ref name="Sight and Sound">{{cite magazine| last =Romney | first = Jonathan | title =Sight and Sound Top Ten Poll 2002 | magazine =Sight and Sound| date= September 2002 | url =http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/voter.php?forename=Jonathan&surname=Romney | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20020818023550/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/voter.php?forename=Jonathan&surname=Romney | url-status =dead | archive-date =August 18, 2002 }}</ref> They have made two full-length live action films: ''[[Institute Benjamenta]], or This Dream People Call Human Life'' (1996), produced by Keith Griffiths and [[Janine Marmot]], and ''[[The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes]]'' (2005), produced by Keith Griffiths. They also directed an animated sequence in the film ''[[Frida (2002 film)|Frida]]'' (2002).

With very few exceptions, their films have no meaningful spoken dialogue (most have no spoken content at all, while some, such as ''The Comb (From the Museums of Sleep)'' (1990) include multilingual background gibberish that is not intended to be coherently understood). Accordingly, their films are highly reliant on their music scores, of which many have been written especially for them by the Polish composer Leszek Jankowski. In 2000, they contributed a short film to the [[BBC]]'s ''Sound On Film'' series in which they visualised a 20-minute piece by the [[avant-garde]] composer [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]]. Whenever possible, the Quay Brothers prefer to work with pre-recorded music, though [[Gary Tarn]]'s score for ''The Phantom Museum'' had to be added afterwards when it became impossible to license music by the Czech composer [[Zdeněk Liška]].<ref>[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1201323/index.html BFI Screenonline: Phantom Museum, The (2003)]</ref>

They have created [[music video]]s for [[His Name Is Alive]] ("Are We Still Married", "Can't Go Wrong Without You"), [[Michael Penn]] ("Long Way Down (Look What the Cat Drug In)") and [[16 Horsepower]] ("Black Soul Choir"). Their style has been mimicked to the point that audiences mistakenly believed that the Quay Brothers were responsible for several music videos for [[Tool (band)|Tool]]<ref>[https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/where-begin-quay-brothers Where to begin with the Quay brothers-BFI]</ref> but those videos were created by Fred Stuhr and member [[Adam Jones (musician)|Adam Jones]], whose work is influenced by the Quay Brothers. Although they worked on [[Peter Gabriel]]'s seminal video "[[Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel song)#Music video|Sledgehammer]]" (1986) as animators, this was directed by [[Stephen R. Johnson]] and the Quay Brothers in order to support their personal projects.

Before turning to film, the Quay Brothers worked as professional illustrators. The first edition of [[Anthony Burgess]]' novel ''The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End'', included their drawings before the start of each chapter. Nearly three decades before directly collaborating with Stockhausen, they designed the cover of the book ''Stockhausen: Conversations with the Composer'' (ed. Jonathan Cott, Simon & Schuster, 1973). After designing book covers for Gothic and science fiction books while in Philadelphia, the Quay Brothers have created suggestive designs for a variety of publications that seem to reflect not only their own interests in particular authors, covers for [[Italo Calvino]], [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]] or Mark le Fanu's study of the films of [[Andrei Tarkovsky]], but also in themes and motifs that these authors develop. Literary texts are inspirational sources for almost all of their film projects, whether they serve as a point of departure for their own ideas or as a textual basis for filmic scenarios, and not as scripts or screenplays. The prowess in illustration and calligraphy seeps increasingly into many formal elements in their later films, evident as graphic embellishment in the set decoration, or their particular use of patterns in the puppets' costume design. Titles, intertitles and credits appear in a variety of handwritten styles.

In an interview with [[Robert K. Elder]] for his book ''[[The Best Film You've Never Seen]]'', the Quay Brothers discuss their creative process, stating: "If [a] project does eventually get approval, then we almost invariably chuck [the] original proposal out, not out of any cavalierness, but simply because we know that, as we start building the decors and the puppets, the script begins to grow and evolve very organically."<ref>Elder, Robert K. The Best Film You've Never Seen: 35 Directors Champion the Forgotten or Critically Savaged Movies They Love. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review, 2013. Print.</ref>

The critical success of ''Street of Crocodiles'' gave the Quay Brothers artistic freedom to explore a shift in subject matter, in part originating in literary and poetic sources that led to exploration of new aesthetic forms, but also because they were able to make extensive experiments in technique, both with cameras and on large stage sets. The Quay Brothers are best known for their puppet and feature-length films. Less known, but no less incisive in their creative development, is their intense engagement in stage design for opera, ballet and theatre: since 1988, the Quay Brothers have created sets and projections for performing arts productions on international stages. Their work at miniature scale has translated into large-scale designs for the theatre and opera productions of director [[Richard Jones (opera director)|Richard Jones]]: [[Prokofiev]]'s ''[[The Love for Three Oranges]]''; [[Feydeau]]'s "A Flea in Her Ear"; [[Tchaikovsky]]'s ''[[Mazeppa (opera)|Mazeppa]]''; and [[Molière]]'s "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme". Their set design for a revival of [[Eugène Ionesco|Ionesco]]'s "[[The Chairs]]" was nominated for a [[Tony Award]] in 1998. The Quay Brothers' excursion into feature films and live-action dance films were not an indication of a move away from animation and the literature that inspires them—on the contrary, the film explores the potential which slumbers in the combination of these cinematic techniques. Their puppet animation set designs have been curated as an internationally touring exhibition called "Dormitorium" which toured the east coast of the United States in 2009, including the originating venue of the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, followed by Parsons The New School of Design, New York,<ref name="Dormitorium">[http://www.newschool.edu/pressroom/emails/documents/dormitoriumpresskit.pdf Dormitorium Exhibition Newschool University]. [[Parsons School of Design]]. Retrieved July 7, 2010</ref> Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

The Quay Brothers are strongly influenced by literature and the written word – from Eastern-European poetry to South American magic realism.

*[[Lewis Carroll]] (''Alice in Not So Wonderland'')
*[[Emma Hauck]] (''In Absentia'')
*[[Felisberto Hernández]] (''Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H'', ''The Doll's Breath'')
*[[Franz Kafka]] (''The Metamorphosis'')
*[[Stanisław Lem]] (''Maska'')
*[[Rainer Maria Rilke]] (''Eurydice: She, So Beloved'')
*[[Bruno Schulz]] (''Street of Crocodiles'', ''Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass'')
*[[Robert Walser]] (''The Comb'', ''Institute Benjamenta'')

Music is an essential part of the Quay Brothers' films, as they also find inspiration in Eastern European classical music.<ref>[https://filmforum.org/film/quay-brothers-on-35mm-film Film Forum-THE QUAY BROTHERS-ON 35MM]</ref> The Quay Brothers' films feature music by the following composers:

*Stefan Cichoński (''Nocturna Artificialia'')
*[[Trevor Duncan]] (''Piano Tuner of Earthquakes'')
*[[Leoš Janáček]] (''Leoš Janáček: Intimate Excursions'', ''The Sandman'', ''The Metamorphosis'')
*Lech Jankowski (''Street of Crocodiles'', ''Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies'', ''Ex-Voto'', ''The Comb'', ''Institute Benjamenta'', ''De Artificiali Perspectiva, or Anamorphosis'')
*[[Zygmunt Konieczny]] (''Nocturna Artificialia'')
*[[György Kurtag]] (''The Sandman'')
*[[Zdeněk Liška]] (''The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer'', ''The Phantom Museum'')
*[[Steve Martland]] (''Songs for Dead Children'')
*[[Claudio Monteverdi]] (''Eurydice: She, So Beloved'')
*Timothy Nelson (''Wonderwood'', ''Through The Weeping Glass'', ''Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.'', ''Vade mecum'', ''Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass'')
*[[Arvo Pärt]] (''Duet'')
*[[Krzysztof Penderecki]] (''Ein Brudermord'', ''Inventorium of Traces'', ''Maska'')
*[[Sergei Prokofiev]] (''Alice in Not So Wonderland'')
*[[Christopher Slaski]] (''Piano Tuner of Earthquakes'')
*[[Karlheinz Stockhausen]] (''In Absentia'')
*[[Igor Stravinski]] (''Igor, The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920–1929'')
*[[Gary Tarn]] (''The Phantom Museum'', ''Tempus Fugit'')
*[[Antonio Vivaldi]] (''Piano Tuner of Earthquakes'')

==Legacy==
In 2010, the [[College of Physicians of Philadelphia]] received a Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative grant through The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage for an exhibitions project that would include a new work by the Quay Brothers. The Quay Brothers produced a new film entitled ''Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)''. The film is their first made in the United States, produced by Edward Waisnis through his company PRO BONO films in collaboration with Atelier Koninck QBFZ, London and it focuses on the history and collections of the college's famed [[Mütter Museum]].<ref>https://www.npr.org/2011/09/21/140637437/quays-focus-weeping-glass-on-the-mutter-museum</ref> The film, with narration by [[Derek Jacobi]] and a musical score by Timothy Nelson,<ref>https://timnelson.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-weeping-glass-original-soundtrack-recording</ref> was shot on location in Philadelphia during the summer of 2010 and premiered in autumn 2011, with symposia, at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania; New York City's [[Museum of Modern Art]]; and the [[Museum of Jurassic Technology]] in Los Angeles. The film was subsequently shown at the Wellcome Collection, London, England; the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto, Canada; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; and at the Wexner Center of the Arts at Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. It was reviewed in both ''Sight & Sound'' and ''Film Comment''. The 35mm negative and print were selected for inclusion in the film collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

The Quay Brothers were commissioned by Leeds Canvas, a group of eight cultural organisations in Leeds, UK, to create in May 2012 a major citywide art installation, OverWorlds & UnderWorlds. The commission was one of twelve 'Artists Taking the Lead' projects around the UK, Arts Council England's flagship contribution to the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Later in the same year, the Quay Brothers were the subject of a grand retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York entitled ''Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets'' which featured work spanning their entire career, tracing back as early as childhood, with much of the material shown for the first time. Organized by Ron Magliozzi, Associate Curator of MoMA's Film Department, the exhibition ran from August 12, 2012, through January 7, 2013 and included a full coinciding film program.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Smith|first=Roberta |title=A Universe Like Ours, Only Weirder=The New York Times|newspaper=The New York Times |date=9 August 2012|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/arts/design/quay-brothers-retrospective-at-moma.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Goodeve|first=Thyrza |title=Quay Brothers:On Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets|journal=The Brooklyn Rail|date=October 2012|url=http://brooklynrail.org/2012/10/artseen/quay-brothers-on-deciphering-the-pharmacists-prescription-for-lip-reading-puppets}}</ref>

In 2013, the Quay Brothers were recipients of a residency program award at the Wexner Center of the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. The project they undertook coinciding with this residency was a puppet animation film entitled: ''Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.''–that revolves around the work and life of Uruguyan writer Felisberto Hernández, often referred to as the father of 'magic realism', and for whose work the Quay Brothers share an affinity. The production was overseen by Edward Waisnis through PRO BONO films, in collaboration with Atelier Koninck QBFZ, and the support of the Fundación Felisberto Hernández, and features a score composed by Timothy Nelson, who has worked with the Quay Brothers previously. As of January 2014, the Quay Brothers have been in production with The Digital Toy Company on a joint film/video-game project entitled ''Asleep: I Hear My Name''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ndbooks.com/blog/article/a-few-questions-for-the-quay-brothers |title=A Q & A with the Quay Brothers &#124; New Directions |access-date=2014-01-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107012225/http://ndbooks.com/blog/article/a-few-questions-for-the-quay-brothers |archive-date=2014-01-07 }}</ref>

The Quay Brothers' work was exhibited in two further major international exhibitions in 2013/2014. The first, ''The Quay Brothers' Universum'' was the Quay Brothers' first 'solo' exhibition in Europe and took place at the [[EYE Film Institute Netherlands]], [[Amsterdam]] from December 15, 2013 – March 9, 2014. The second, ''Metamorfosis. Visiones Fantásticas de Starewitch, Švankmajer y Los Hermanos Quay'' was held at the [[Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona]], [[Barcelona]] (25 March – 7 September 2014) and [[La Casa Encendida]] (2 October 2014 – 11 January 2015), [[Madrid]], respectively. The exhibition was curated by Spanish animation curator, programmer and historian Carolina López Caballero and was a major exploration of the art of stop motion animation, placing the Quay Brothers' work alongside Russian-born puppet animation godfather [[Ladislas Starevich]] and Czech surrealist master [[Jan Švankmajer]].

Hollywood director [[Christopher Nolan]] revealed himself to have been an admirer of the Quay Brothers' work since coming across their films late at night when they were originally screened on [[Channel 4]] in the UK. In 2015, Nolan curated a theatrical tour showcasing newly restored 35mm prints of the Quay's films ''[[In Absentia (film)|In Absentia]]'', ''The Comb'' and ''[[Street of Crocodiles]]''. The programme also included the eight-minute 'documentary' ''[[Quay (film)|Quay]]'' (2015) which Nolan directed as an homage to the twins. The programme and Nolan's short received critical acclaim, with ''[[Indiewire]]'' writing in their review that the Quay Brothers "will undoubtedly have hundreds, if not thousands more fans because of Nolan, and for that ''The Quay Brothers in 35mm'' will always be one of latter's most important contributions to cinema".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/why-the-quay-brothers-in-35mm-is-one-of-christopher-nolans-greatest-accomplishments-20150820|title=Why 'The Quay Brothers in 35mm' is One of Christopher Nolan's Greatest Accomplishments|work=Indiewire|access-date=21 August 2015|date=20 August 2015}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/27/christopher-nolan-short-film-quay?|title=Christopher Nolan's next movie is a documentary short|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=28 July 2015|date=27 July 2015}}</ref>

Directly after the launch of the 35mm programme in the states, the Quay Brothers were celebrated at the Bristol Festival of Puppetry, UK (August – September 2015).<ref>[http://www.awn.com/news/2015-bristol-festival-puppetry-showcase-parry-purves-brothers-quay 2015 Bristol Festival of Puppetry to Showcase Barry Purves, The Brothers Quay{{!}}Animation World Network]</ref> A retrospective of their work was curated by animation director [[Joseph Wallace (animator)|Joseph Wallace]], who also hosted a conversation with the Quay Brothers about the relationship between their animation and stage work at [[Watershed (Bristol)]]. Wallace, along with Puppet Place (the organisation behind the festival), also commissioned the Quay Brothers to create an installation which ran for the duration of the festival and was displayed in a disused control room on a bridge in the centre of Bristol entitled: ''Homage To The Framed Perspective of an Abridged Conversation Between the Painters Sassetta & Uccello and the Mystical Occurrence that Happened Before Your Arrival.''.

The Quay Brothers collaborated with [[Louis Andriessen]] in 2016 and designed decors for his opera ''Theatre of The World'' which premiered at the [[Walt Disney Concert Hall]] in Los Angeles <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.laphil.com/tickets/andriessen-premiere-theatre-of-world/2016-05-06 |title=Andriessen Premiere: Theatre of the World &#124; LA Phil |access-date=2016-07-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002205002/http://laphil.com/tickets/andriessen-premiere-theatre-of-world/2016-05-06 |archive-date=2016-10-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref> before playing at the [[Carré Theatre]] in [[Amsterdam]] as part of the [[Holland Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hollandfestival.nl/en/program/2016/theatre-of-the-world/ |title=Theatre of the World{{!}}Holland Festival |access-date=2016-07-08 |archive-date=2016-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160702122716/http://www.hollandfestival.nl/en/program/2016/theatre-of-the-world |url-status=dead }}</ref> As well as the design, the Quay Brothers also produced animated projections which accompanied the performance.

In October 2016, a two disk [[Blu-ray]] collection of the Quay Brothers films dating 1979–2013 entitled "Inner Sanctums" was released by the [[British Film Institute]].<ref>[https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/announcements/bfi-dvd-blu-ray-releases-announced-july-september-2016 BFI DVD and Blu-ray releases announced for July–September 2016{{!}}BFI]</ref> The edition includes 24 of the Quay Brothers' short films, of which three are UK premieres and five are world premieres, along with a disk of special features including footnotes, interviews, rare behind the scenes films and Christopher Nolan's short portrait of the brothers; ''[[Quay (film)|Quay]]'' (2015).

==Awards and honours==

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! Film !! Awards
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| style="width: 30% | Punch And Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy || Annecy Prix Émile Reynaud (1983)
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| Street of Crocodiles || Cannes International Film Festival, nominated for the Golden Palm (1986)
Zagreb World Festival of Animation Films, 3 awards (1986)
Catalan International Film Festival, Sitges: Caixa de Catalunya (Best Film SF) (1986)
MFF w Odense: Grand Prix for Best Fairytale Film (1986)
Festival International Du Film & De Science Fiction, Bruksela: Grand Prix (1986)
San Francisco International Film Festival: Grand Prix, Best Short Film (1986)
MFF Fantasporto, International Fantasy Film Award (1987)
|-
| Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies || San Francisco: Best Experimental Film (1988)
|-
| The Comb || Oberhausen International Short Film Festival: Grand Prix (1990)
|-
| De Artificiali Perspectiva Or Anamorphosis || Nominated for BAFTA Film Award (1992)
|-
| Institute Benjamenta || IFF Special Mention Locarno Main Competition & Youth Jury: The Second Prize (1995) 
Stockholm International Film Festival: Grand Prix (1995)
|-
| In Absentia || Official Selection – Directors Fortnight, Cannes International Film Festival (2000)
Nominated for the Prix Italia, Best Music Film for Television (2000)
Lipsku International Film Festival: Golden Dove Award (2000)
Tampere International Film Festival: Special Jury Award (2000)
Montreal International Film Festival: Special Jury Mention (2000)
Prague International Film Festival: Golden Prague Award (2000)
Kraków Film Festival: Honorary Diploma Award
50th Melbourne International Film Festival: Best Short Film
Turkey International Film Festival: Grand Prix {Ex Aequo}
Sitges International Film Festival – Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya: Best Short Film (2001)
British Animation Awards – Best Film: Cutting Edge (2002)
Palmars, Classique en Images, Prix Sacem, Paris (2002)
|-
| The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes || Locarno International Film Festival: Special Mention, Main Competition & Jury des Jeunes (2005)
Sitges International Film Festival – Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya (for Best Special Effects) (2005)
|}

==Filmography==
'''Feature films'''
*''[[Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life]]'' (1995)
*''[[The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes]]'' (2005)
*''Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass'' (2024)

'''Short films'''
*''Nocturne Artificialia: Those Who Desire Without End'' (1979)
*''Rain Dance'' (1980) – a short film for ''[[Sesame Street]]'' <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KPh7PIWt2s Sesame Street – Rain Dance – Brothers Quay]</ref>
*''Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy'' (1980)
*''Ein Brudermord'' (1980)
*''The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode'' (1981)
*''Igor, The Paris Years Chez Pleyel'' (1983)
*''[[Leoš Janáček|Leoš Janáček: Intimate Excursions]]'' (1983) <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1jmqsb7UFo Brothers Quay "Leos Janacek" – 1/2 – YouTube]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8O77m2XWZI Brothers Quay "Leos Janacek" – 2/2 – YouTube]</ref>
*''[[The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer]]'' (1984)
*''[[The Epic of Gilgamesh, or This Unnameable Little Broom]]'' (1985) Full title: ''Little Songs of the Chief Officer of Hunar Louse, or This Unnameable Little Broom, being a Largely Disguised Reduction of the Epic of Gilgamesh''
*''[[Street of Crocodiles]]'' (1986)
*''Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies'' (1988)
*''Stille Nacht I: Dramolet'' (1988)
*''Ex-Voto'' (1989)
*''The Comb (From the Museums of Sleep)'' (1990)
*''De Artificiali Perspectiva, or Anamorphosis'' (1991)
*''The Calligrapher'' (1991) – an ident commissioned by [[BBC2]] which was later rejected and never broadcast <ref>[https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/the-quay-brothers-at-moma/ Seeing Double: The Quay Brothers at MoMA]</ref>
*''Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?'' (1991)
*''Stille Nacht III: Tales From Vienna Woods'' (1992)
*''Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You'' (1993)
*''The Summit'' (1995)
*''Duet'' (2000)
*''[[The Sandman (2000 film)|The Sandman]]'' (2000)
*''[[In Absentia (film)|In Absentia]]'' (2000)
*''Stille Nacht V: Dog Door'' (2001)
*''[[Frida (2002 film)|Frida]]'' (2002) – animated contribution (dir: [[Julie Taymor]])
*''Songs for Dead Children'' (2003)
*''The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection'' (2003)
*''Alice in Not So Wonderland'' (2007)
*''Eurydice: She, So Beloved'' (2007)<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite web |last=Christiansen |first=Rupert |title=She, so Beloved: A magical vision of hell |work=The Telegraph |date=6 October 2007 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3668347/She-so-Beloved-A-magical-vision-of-hell.html |access-date=25 September 2016}}</ref>
*''Inventorium of Traces'' (2009)
*''[https://vimeo.com/81402101 Maska]'' (2010)<ref>[http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/26643-the-quay-brothers-maska-plus-film-without-images-hp-lovecrafts-the-dunwich-horror/ Review] of [[Edinburgh Film Festival]] showing</ref>
*''[[Béla Bartók|Bartók Béla: Sonata for Solo Violin]]'' (2011)
*''Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)'' (2011)<ref>[http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1204 MoMA Premiere: Through the Weeping Glass: An Evening with the Quay Brothers{{!}}MoMA]</ref>
*''The Metamorphosis'' (2012)
*''Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.'' (2013)<ref>[http://wexarts.org/film-video/quay-brothers-introduce-mistaken-hands The Quay Brothers Introduce Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.{{!}}Wexner Center for the Arts]</ref>
*''The Doll's Breath'' (2019)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-dolls-breath/|title=The Doll's Breath|date=11 September 2019|publisher=illuminationsmedia|access-date=September 11, 2019}}</ref>
*''Vade mecum'' (2020)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/award-winning-quay-brothers-create-norwid-film-to-promote-poets-work-to-foreign-audiences-21198|title=Award-winning Quay brothers create Norwid film to promote poet's work to foreign audiences}}</ref>
*''11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem'' (2021)

'''Music videos'''
*''[[Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel song)|Sledgehammer]]'' – [[Peter Gabriel]] (1986) – animated contribution (dir: [[Stephen R. Johnson]])
*''Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?'' – [[His Name is Alive]] (1991)
*''Long Way Down (Look What The Cat Drug In)'' – [[Michael Penn]] (1992)
*''Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You'' – [[His Name is Alive]] (1993)
*"''Black Soul Choir'' – [[16 Horsepower]] (1996)
*''Stille Nacht V: Dog Door'' – [[Sparklehorse]] (2001)
*''[[Ubu Roi]]'' – [[Pere Ubu]] (2008) – projected music video for live show
*''Muslingauze'' – [[DJ Spooky]] (2008–2010)
*''Stille Nacht V: Starman'' – Sabisha (2008–2010)

'''Commercials'''
*''The Repeat Prescription Report'' (2017) Pharmacy2U
*''Tempus Fugit'' (2016) Slow Time, Leffe
*''Wonderwood'' (2010) Comme des Garçons
*''Kinoteka, 1st Polsk Filmfestival ident'' (2009) Polish Institute, London
*''Mistletoe Kisses'' (2007) Galaxy, Mars, Inc.
*''NHL, Laundromat'' (2001) Fox Sports
*''NHL, Library'' (2001) Fox Sports
*''Magnets'' (2001) Chili's
*''Rice Krispies Treats – Float'' (2000) Kellogg's
*''Pitney Chairs'' (1999) Pitney
*''Northern Rock'' (1999) Northern Rock
*''Mars Celebration'' (1998) Mars, Inc.
*''Fox and Crow'' (1998) Badoit
*''Lion and Zebra'' (1998) Badoit
*''Weed Families'' (1998) Roundup
*''Weeds'' (1998) Roundup
*''Doritos idents'' (1997) Frito-Lay
*''The Wooden Box That Collapses'' (title sequence) (1997) The End
*''Lockets Metallica'' (1996) Mars, Inc.
*''Swallow'' (1996) Murphy's Irish Stout
*''Warriors'' (1996) Murphy's Irish Stout
*''Brainfreeze'' (1995) 7-Eleven Slurpee
*''Blue Cross'' (1995) Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.
*''Dolls'' (1994) The Partnership for a Drug Free America
*''Trees'' (1993) Coca-Cola
*''Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme'' (title sequence) (1993) The End
*''Fun Touch'' (1989) Nikon
*''Zenith'' (1988) MTV
*''MTV ident'' (1988) MTV
*''BFI ident'' (1998) British Film Institute
*''Skips'' (1988) K.P. Skips
*''Dulux'' (1987) Dulux
*''Walkers Crisps'' (1986) Walkers
*''Honeywell'' (1986) Honeywell Computers <ref>[https://www.awn.com/heaven_and_hell/QUAY/quay2.htm Brothers Quay Filmography/Videography – AWN]</ref>

'''Appearances'''
*''[[The Falls (1980 film)|The Falls]]'' (1980)
*''[[Quay (film)|Quay]]'' (2015)

==Opera, ballet and stage==
*''The Birthday Party'' (2018) By Harold Pinter, directed by Ian Rickson at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London.
*''Theatre of the World'' (2016) By Louis Andriessen, directed by Pierre Audi. Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam/Holland Festival, Amsterdam.
*''An Evening at the Talk House'' (2015) By Wallace Shawn, directed by Ian Rickson at the National Theatre, London.
*''Overworlds & Underworlds'' (2012) A Leeds Canvas initiative for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Leeds.
*''I looked back when I reached halfway'' (2011) Collaboration with violinist Alina Ibragimova on Béla Bartók's Sonata for Violin (1944). Chetham's School of Music/Manchester International Festival, Manchester; Wilton's Music Hall, London.
*''Bring Me the Head of Ubu Roi'' (2008) Projections for Pere Ubu. Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.
*''Paul Bunyan'' (2007) By Benjamin Britten, directed by Nicholas Broadhurst. Theater am Kornmarkt Bregenz/Theater Luzern.
*''Pinocchio'' (2006) By Martin Ward, choreographed and directed by Will Tuckett. Royal Opera House, London.
*''The Cricket Recovers'' (2005) By Richard Ayres, directed by Nicholas Broadhurst. Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk, and Almeida Opera, London.
*''The Anatomy of a Storyteller'' (2004) Ballet by Kim Brandstrup. Royal Opera House, London.
*''Death and Resurrection'' (2003) By J. S. Bach and Steve Martland, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Steve Martland. Four short films illustrating Martland's Street Songs. Tate Modern and St. Paul's Cathedral, London.
*''The Wind in the Willows'' (2002) Ballet by Will Tuckett. Royal Opera House, London.
*''Queen of Spades'' (2001) Ballet by Kim Brandstrup. Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Montreal.
*''Baa-Laamsfest'' (1999) By Olga Neuwirth, directed by Nicholas Broadhurst. Wiener Festwochen, Vienna.
*''The Chairs'' (1997) By Eugène Ionesco, directed by Simon McBurney. Theatre de Complicité and Royal Court, London and John Golden Theater, New York. (The Quay Brothers won the 1998 Drama Desk Award for Best Design and were also nominated for a Tony award)
*''Cupid & Psyche'' (1997) Ballet by Kim Brandstrup. Royal Danish Ballet, Copenhagen.
*''The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other'' (1996) By Peter Handke. Theater ballet directed by Kim Brandstrup. Malmo Dramatiska Theatre, Sweden.
*''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (1996) By William Shakespeare, directed by Jonathan Miller. Almeida Theatre, London.
*''Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme'' (1992) By Molière, directed by Richard Jones. Royal National Theatre, London
*''Mazeppa'' (1991) By Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, directed by Richard Jones. Bregenz Festival/Nederlands Opera
*''A Flea in Her Ear'' (1989) By Georges Feydeau, directed by Richard Jones. Old Vic, London.
*''The Love For Three Oranges'' (1988) By Sergei Prokofiev, directed by Richard Jones. Opera North, Leeds/English National Opera, London.
*''Dybbuk'' (1988) Ballet by Kim Brandstrup. The Place, London.

==References==
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==Further reading==
'''Journal articles on the Quay Brothers'''
*Buchan, Suzanne, "Liberation of the Mistake: A Glimpse into the Quay Brothers" Research Process', in: Proof, Vol 3 No 1 (2008): 16–20
*Costatini, Gustavo. "''De Artificiali Perspectiva'': The Brothers Quay's Use of Sound and Music." Filmwaves Magazine, Issue 32 (2007): 43–47
*Fiumara, James. "The Thirteenth Freak Month: The Influence of Bruno Schulz on the Brothers Quay." Kinoeye, Vol 4 Issue 5 (2004)
*Buchan, Suzanne H. 'Choreographed Chiaroscuro, Enigmatic and Sublime.' Film Quarterly, Spring (1998): 2–15.
*Nichols Goodeve, Thyrza. "Dream Team: Thyrza Nichols Goodeve Talks with the Brothers Quay." Artforum, April (1996)
* Hammond, Paul. "In Mystery, Shrouded: On the Quays' New Film." Vertigo Magazine, Vol. 1 No.5 (1995): 18–20
* Atkinson, Michael. "The night countries of the ''Brothers Quay''." Film Comment, September/October (1994): 36–44
* Atkinson, Michael. "Unsilent night: The Brothers Quay." Film Comment, Vol. 30 No. 5, September/October (1995): 25–38
* Romney, Jonathan. "The Same Dark Drift." Sight and Sound, Vol. 1, No. 11 (1992): 24–27
* Romney, Jonathan. "Brothers in Armature." City Limits. No. 446 (1990): 16–17
* Atkinson, Michael. "Stirrings in the Dust." Afterimage, No. 13 (1987): 4–9
* Wadley, Nick. "Masks, Music, and Dances of Dream". PIX, no. 2, January 1997, 126–134; + Interview with Brothers Quay, 135–143
*Hammond, Paul. "In Quay Animation." Afterimage 13, Autumn 1987: 54–67

'''Academic essays on the Quay Brothers'''
* Buchan, Suzanne. "The Animated Spectator: Watching the Quay Brothers' 'Worlds'". In Suzanne Buchan (Ed) ''Animated Worlds'', pp 15–38. Eastleigh: John Libbey Publishing, 2006. {{ISBN|0-86196-661-9}}
* De Rosa, Agostino. "Dove lo sguardo esita" (Where the gaze hesitates). In Agostino De Rosa, Giuseppe D'Acunto (Ed), ''La Vertigine dello Sguardo. Tre saggi sulla rappresentazione anamorfica'' (The Vertigo of Sight. Three Essays on the Anamorphic Representation), pp 184–201. Venezia: Cafoscarina Publishing, 2002. {{ISBN|9788888613314}}
* Weiner, Steve. "The Quay Brothers' The Epic of Gilgamesh and the 'Metaphysics of Obscenity'" in J. Pilling (Ed.), ''A Reader in Animation Studies'' London, John Libbey & Company, 1997.

'''Books on the Quay Brothers'''
* Mikurda, Kuba and Prodeus, Adriana (Eds). ''Trzynasty miesiąc. Kino Braci Quay''. Cracow-Warsaw: Korporacja Ha!art & IFF Era New Horizons, 2010. {{ISBN|978-83-61407-62-1}}. (in Polish)
* Buchan, Suzanne. ''The Quay Brothers. Into a Metaphysical Playroom''. University of Minnesota Press, 2010. {{ISBN|0-8166-4659-7}}
* Pilling, Jayne and Fabrizio Liberti (Eds). ''Stephen e Timothy Quay''. Bergamo: Stamperia Stefanoni, 1999.

'''Catalogues'''
*Costa, Jordi. (Ed) "Quay Brothers". Sitges: Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya, 2001.
*''Dormitorium: An Exhibition of Film Décors''. Philadelphia, PA: The University of the Arts, 2009. 
*Magliozzi, Ronald S. and Edwin Carels. ''Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets''. NY: The Museum of Modern Art, [2012]. {{ISBN|9780870708435}}.
* Buchan, Suzanne, et al. ''The Quay Brothers' Universum''. Amsterdam: Filmmuseum EYE, 2013. {{ISBN|978-94-6208-127-7}}
*López Caballero, Carolina, et al. "Metamorfosis. Visiones Fantásticas de Starewitch, Švankmajer y Los Hermanos Quay". Barcelona: Centre de Cultura Contemporaània de Barcelona / Diputacioó de Barcelona, 2014. {{ISBN|978-84-9803-668-8}}

'''DVD/Blu-ray'''
* "Inner Sanctums – Quay Brothers: The Collected Animated Films 1979 – 2013" Blu-ray Region B / PAL. British Film Institute. Release date 2016. {{ASIN|B01F72POIS}}
* "The Quay Brothers: Collected Short Films" Blu-ray Region A / NTSC. Zeitgeist Films. Release date 2015. {{ASIN|B0143535VI}}
* Brooke, Michael (Ed), ''Quay Brothers—The Short Films'' 1979–2003. London: BFI, 2006. EAN 5035673006535
* ''The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films'' 1984–1993. DVD Region 1 / NTSC. Kino Video. Release date 2000. 120 minutes. {{ASIN|6305957681}}
* ''Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life'' (1995) DVD Region 1 / NTSC. Kino. Release date 2000. B/w, 104 minutes. {{ASIN|B007VQG1MM}}
* ''Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life'' (1995) VHS PAL. ICA Projects Ltd. Release date 1996. B/w, 104 min.
* ''The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes'' (2005) Zeitgeist Films. Region 1 /NTSC. Release date 2007. Colour and b/w, 99 minutes.
* ''The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes'' (2005). DVD Region 2 / PAL. Artificial Eye. release date 2006. Colour and b/w, 99 minutes.
* ''L'Accordeur de tremblements de terre'' DVD Region 2 / PAL. E.D. distribution. Release date 2007. Colour and b/w, 99 minutes.
* ''Through the Weeping Glass:  On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)'' DVD Region 1 / NTSC. Release date 2011. Colour and b/w, 31 min.

==External links==
{{Commons category|Brothers Quay}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100527094200/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/stephen-timothy-quay/biography/ Quay Brothers] profile at [[European Graduate School]], biography, bibliography and video lectures
*Senses of Cinema-[https://web.archive.org/web/20090804194617/http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/04/quay_brothers.html Great Directors Critical Database]
*Senses of Cinema-[https://web.archive.org/web/20110518061930/http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/19/quay.html Through a Glass Darkly] Interview with the Quay Brothers
*{{IMDb name|0703029|Timothy Quay}}
*{{IMDb name|0703028|Stephen Quay}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110607121735/http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=quayretrospective&mode=filmmaker%2F The Short Films of The Quay Brothers] at Zeitgeist Films
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120426075247/http://www.helloandcompany.com/directors/39-Brothers-Quay Videos by Brothers Quay]}}
*[http://culture.pl/en/article/quay-brothers-from-lutoslawski-to-silence From Lutosławski to Silence] Interview with the Quay Brothers
*[https://vimeo.com/418134411 Official short films trailer on Vimeo]
*[https://www.criterionchannel.com/short-films-by-the-quay-brothers Criterion Channel] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929125547/https://www.criterionchannel.com/short-films-by-the-quay-brothers |date=2020-09-29 }}

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