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- Influenced heavily by Central European writers and artists, their work reflects the dark psychology resulting from a century of industrial warfare, surrealist art, and dialectical politics.
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Apr 6, 2018 · The Quay brothers, however, are unique, tapping into a sense of early 20th-century Europe that is a place of dusty nightmares, folkloric paraphernalia and crumbling institutes filled with the dispossessed.
Mar 13, 2002 · AH: Do all these objects in your films have a symbolic, metaphorical meaning or do you see them more as poetic, textural, musical objects? Quays: They’re all of that at the same time. They are distinct emblems, things that seemed to belong to that universe.
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Aug 21, 2015 · people will remember first when they hear the word “Quay.” “The eyes are the soul of the puppet” one of them says, early in Nolan’s film. That’s why the brothers coat their puppet’s eyes in olive oil, to keep them shining and looking right back into the viewer’s soul. One of the many special touches that
Aug 10, 2012 · Inanimate objects in Quay films are never inanimate—they’re seconds, or centuries, away from quivering. They wait and then shake up the scenery. The Quay Brothers’ source material—for their...
Aug 30, 2024 · A blend of stop-motion animation and live action, it is inspired by the story collection by Polish writer Bruno Schulz, about a son Jozef, visiting his dying father in a remote Galician Sanatorium....
Nov 20, 2012 · The Quays allow their art to spring from the minds and works of others in a peculiar blend of homage and rejection, an impulse influenced perhaps by the Polish Surrealist school of graphic artists—whose works, also on view in the gallery, take their subjects in stride—or by the very trade of graphic design itself, in which the Quays began.
Sep 5, 2024 · The Brothers Quay, identical twins, make marvellous, mystifying films in which eerie stop-motion puppets outnumber the few live performers. These films might be set in a strange school for servants, or a lecture hall, or a labyrinth, but really they take place in a small desktop universe that runs according to its own alien rules.