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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]
Stephen and Timothy Quay are identical twins who finish each other’s sentences and make eerie stop-motion films out of dolls and ephemera they find at flea markets.
Sep 5, 2024 · Stephen is discursive and softly spoken; Timothy a shade more pithy and decisive. They insist that they work in perfect harmony. “We don’t really disagree on anything,” they say. The Quays were raised in Norristown, outside Philadelphia, but never truly felt that they belonged.
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All films are animated shorts, unless stated otherwise Nocturna Artificialia(1979) Punch & Judy (Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy)(1980) Ein Brudermord(1981) The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode (1981) Igor – Chez Pleyel – The Paris Years (1982) Leos Janacek: Intimate Excursions (1983) The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984) This Unnameable Littl...
Michael Atkinson, “The Night Countries of the Brothers Quay”, Film Comment, 30, September/October 1994, pp. 36–44. Suzanne H. Buchan, “The Quay Brothers: Choreographed Chiaroscuro, Enigmatic and Sublime”, Film Quarterly, Spring 1998, pp. 2–15. Leslie Felperin, “Institute Benjamenta”, Sight and Sound, Winter 1995, pp. 46. Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, “Dr...
Zeitgeist Films | The Brothers Quay The ‘official’ web presence for the Quays. Includes profiles of the Brothers and a number of their films as well as links to sites containing their commissioned works. Shifting Realities: The Brothers Quay – Between Live Action and Animation by Suzanne Buchan Online version of the Buchan’s essay, exploring the co...
Sep 18, 2015 · Speaking to the Quays, or "Quay," as the 68-year-old Stephen and Timothy insisted I refer to them as, was informative in the same way their films are.
Aug 6, 2012 · In conceiving the first career retrospective of the art and films of Stephen and Timothy Quay—all-American boys from Norristown, Pennsylvania—Magliozzi was challenged to honor these...
Identical twins Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay (b. 1947), known as the Brothers Quay or the Quay Brothers, are two of the most remarkable filmmakers of our time. Their stop-motion animations have introduced a generation of viewers to a lyrical darkness not often associated with animation.
