Director
Timothy Quay
1947Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA42 Films
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).
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6.0
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
2025
Ghosts and Whispers
2022
6.0
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
2021
7.0
VadeMecum
2021
6.0
The Doll's Breath
2019
6.1
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
2013
6.4
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011
6.0
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
2010
7.0
Maska
2010
Kinoteka Ident
2009
5.6
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
2007
6.5
Alice in Not So Wonderland
2007
9.0
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
2007
6.3
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
2005
6.0
Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003
2004
6.1
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
2003
5.3
Songs for Dead Children
2003
6.0
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
2001
5.8
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
2001
6.0
The Sandman
2000
6.3
In Absentia
2000
6.0
The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993
2000
7.7
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
1995
5.3
The Summit
1995
6.7
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
1993
5.9
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
1993
6.5
Anamorphosis
1993
6.0
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
1992
6.7
The Comb
1991
6.4
The Calligrapher
1991
4.0
Ex Voto
1989
5.0
Rain Dance
1988
6.6
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
1988
6.3
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
1988
6.9
Tales of the Brothers Quay
1987
6.5
Street of Crocodiles
1986
6.1
This Unnameable Little Broom
1985
6.9
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
1984
6.0
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
1984
5.5
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
1981
5.5
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
1981
5.8