Directing
Stephen Quay
EN, PL, CS, LT cinema · 58 credits
Born
17 June 1947 (age 79)
Birthplace
Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
Stephen Quay was born in 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied illustration at the Philadelphia College of Art and later continued his education at the Royal College of Art in London, where he met his twin brother Timothy and began collaborating in animation. Together, they founded Atelier Koninck and produced their first experimental short films in the late 1970s. Throughout his career, Stephen has directed and co-directed short films, feature films, and stop-motion projects, including Nocturna Artificialia (1979), Street of Crocodiles (1986), Institute Benjamenta (1995), and The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005). His work is characterized by dreamlike, detailed, and symbolic worlds, often using dolls and carefully crafted objects to create surreal and unsettling atmospheres.
Known for
Filmography
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Director, Screenplay, Animation, Editor, Sound
Ghosts and Whispers
Director, Animation
VadeMecum
Director
The Doll's Breath
Director
Quay
as Self, Thanks
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Animation, Writer, Director
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Director, Sound, Editor, Animation
Maska
Director, Writer
The Bug Trainer
as Self - stop-motion animator
Inventorium Śladów
2009
Inventorium of Traces
Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound Designer
Kinoteka Ident
Director
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
Editor, Director, Set Designer
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Director, Writer, Cinematography
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Director, Writer, Production Design
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
as Librarian, Director, Animation
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
Director, Writer
In Absentia
Director, Animation
The Sandman
Director
The Summit
Director
Anamorphosis
Director, Animation, Art Direction, Camera Operator, Editor, Decorator
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Director, Animation, Camera Operator
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
Director, Camera Operator, Animation
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
Director, Animation, Camera Operator
The Comb
Director, Writer, Animation, Art Direction, Camera Operator, Editor
The Calligrapher
Director, Animation
Ex Voto
Director
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Director, Cinematography, Animation, Decorator
Rain Dance
Director
Street of Crocodiles
Director, Editor, Writer, Production Design, Animation
This Unnameable Little Broom
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
Director, Director of Photography
The Falls
as Ipson Fallari
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
Director, Animation
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
Director, Writer
Ein Brudermord
1981
A Fratricide
Director, Animation
Nocturna Artificialia
Director, Cinematography