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1979–present. Stephen and Timothy Quay (/ ˈkweɪ / KWAY; born June 17, 1947) are American identical twin brothers and 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. [1]
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. The best place to start – Institute Benjamenta. Institute Benjamenta (1995)
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...
Sep 5, 2024 · The Quays were raised in Norristown, outside Philadelphia, but never truly felt that they belonged. On their first day at art school, they spotted a display of hand-drawn Polish film posters on the wall and that was that. They were hooked.
- Xan Brooks
Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay were born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, a town with a significant European immigrant influx, which sparked the brothers’ interest in European culture in general and in Eastern Europe in particular.
Last updated: Film directors Timothy and Stephen Quay discuss their long-time rapport with Central and Eastern Europe, the beginnings of their fascination with Polish culture and their latest short film, one about poet Cyprian Kamil Norwid. They also reveal their next project.
Oct 15, 2024 · Timothy and Stephen Quay have developed an entirely unique style in the world of stop-motion animation: vigorously kinetic yet meticulously controlled; balletic in its interweaving of aural and visual rhythms; full of the sort of trivia and esoterica that fascinated Borges and Pessoa; and given to looped sequences of pure, sensual, cinematographic abstraction. Their latest
