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- 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.
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Stephen and Timothy Quay (/ ˈ k w eɪ / 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]
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.
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. While their work remains...
Jan 4, 2013 · Born in 1947 in Philadelphia, the identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay had a priori no immediate link to this universe. But, early on, while still in art school, they became intensely taken with the culture of Central Europe, as if, in a past life, they had lived in the Bohemia of Rudolph II, with its alchemists and cabinets of curiosity.
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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...
Everything about the Quays is distinct, from their surreal backdrops to their spindly, whisper-soft voices, to the way their camera moves. The American-born, England-educated identical twins speak in a splendid hybrid accent, and the way say the word “puppet” is completely unique.
Stephen and Timothy Quay, identical twins, were born in Norristown, near Philadelphia, in 1947. After graduating in 1969 from the Philadelphia College of Art, where they studied illustration and graphics, they won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, London.
