Timothy Quay Movies
- 2026

Sledgehammer Revealed
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Documentary looking back at the making of the music video for the Peter Gabriel single 'Sledgehammer'. Involving interviews from various crew members...
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- 2026

Postscriptum. Ruminations on My Craft
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- 2025

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
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Jozef embarks on a journey via a ghostly train to visit his dying father in a remote Galician sanatorium. Upon arrival, he discovers that the...
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- 1995

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life7.61995HD
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other...
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- 2005

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes6.32005HD
Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.
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- 2015

Quay
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In 2015, Christopher Nolan curated a selection of short films by the surrealist animators the Quay Brothers to be distributed as a touring 35mm...
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- 2007

Eurydice: She, So Beloved
Eurydice: She, So Beloved5.62007HD
Commissioned by Opera North, the Brothers Quay created the installation and film 'She, So Beloved' inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem...
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- 1992

Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?6.1941992HD
Stop-motion animated short film with a white ball, a rabbit, and a girl, and a voice singing "Are We Still Married".
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- 2019

The Doll's Breath
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Afraid of losing his wife, Horatio creates a replica he calls Hortensia. But things don't go as planned... Shot on 35mm and propelled by an...
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- 2007

Alice in Not So Wonderland
Alice in Not So Wonderland6.22007HD
The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers.
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- 1993

Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods6.1671993HD
Near an extraordinary chair with many legs, a hand is visible gripping an edge. The hand is weathered, the fingers cracked and scarred. The end of a...
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- 1988

Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet6.4561988HD
A magnet moves on a floor. A moth beats against a window. A doll child watches the magnet; threads of metal filings gather around the magnet.
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- 1988

Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies6.61988HD
Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.
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- 2015

The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
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Guy Maddin, who has been nicknamed the Canadian David Lynch, is undoubtedly one of the last remaining Magi of cinema. Despite living in the middle of...
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- 1985

This Unnameable Little Broom
This Unnameable Little Broom6.21985HD
Stop-motion animated short film in which a puppet on a trike captures a puppet bird-man.
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- 2009

The Art of Time
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Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...
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- 2003

Songs for Dead Children
Songs for Dead Children5.22003HD
Inspired by Gustav Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder," made for the Tate Gallery, London, and has never been released. "There's something we did for the...
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- 2011

Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)6.42011HD
A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the...
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- 2003

The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection6.22003HD
A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.
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- 2009

Inventorium of Traces
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In the Renaissance castle of the Polish count - Jan Potocki - in Lancut, the modern traces of a past glory persevere and become visible again at the...
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