Stephen Quay
53 movies
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Jun 17, 1947 (age 79)
- Place of birth
- Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 6.6 Street of Crocodiles
1986 · Film
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★ 7.6 Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
1995 · Film
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★ 6.9 The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
1984 · Film
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★ 6.3 The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
2005 · Film
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★ 6.4 Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
1988 · Film
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★ 6.7 The Comb
1991 · Film
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★ 6.1 Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
1992 · Film
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★ 6.5 In Absentia
2000 · Film
Stephen Quay: movies and TV shows
Acting (6)
- 2015
- 2010
- 2009
- 2006
- 2003
- 1982 The Falls
as Ipson Fallari
Behind the camera (49)
- 2026
- 2025 Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Director, Screenplay, Animation, Editor, Sound
- 2022
- 2022 Ghosts and Whispers
Director, Animation
- 2021
- 2021 VadeMecum
Director
- 2019 The Doll's Breath
Director
- 2015 Quay
Thanks
- 2013 Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Animation, Writer, Director
- 2011 Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Director, Sound, Editor, Animation
- 2010 Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
Director
- 2010 Maska
Director, Writer
- 2009 Kinoteka Ident
Director
- 2009 Inventorium of Traces
Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound Designer
- 2007 Eurydice: She, So Beloved
Editor, Director, Set Designer
- 2007 Alice in Not So Wonderland
Director, Writer, Cinematography
- 2007
- 2005 The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Director, Writer, Production Design
- 2004
- 2003
- 2003 Songs for Dead Children
Director
- 2001 Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
Director
- 2001 Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
Director, Writer
- 2000 The Sandman
Director
- 2000 In Absentia
Director, Animation
- 2000
- 1995 Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Director, Writer
- 1995 The Summit
Director
- 1993 Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
Director, Camera Operator, Animation
- 1993 Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Director, Animation, Camera Operator
- 1993 Anamorphosis
Director, Animation, Art Direction, Camera Operator, Editor, Decorator
- 1992 Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
Director, Animation, Camera Operator
- 1991 The Comb
Director, Writer, Animation, Art Direction, Camera Operator, Editor
- 1991 The Calligrapher
Director, Animation
- 1989 Ex Voto
Director
- 1988 Rain Dance
Director
- 1988 Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Director, Cinematography, Animation, Decorator
- 1988 Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
Director
- 1987 Tales of the Brothers Quay
Director
- 1986 Street of Crocodiles
Director, Editor, Writer, Production Design, Animation
- 1985 This Unnameable Little Broom
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
- 1984 The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
Director, Director of Photography
- 1984
- 1983 Janáček: Intimate Excursions
Director
- 1982
- 1981 A Fratricide
Director, Animation
- 1981 Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
Director, Animation
- 1981 The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
Director, Writer
- 1979 Nocturna Artificialia
Director, Cinematography
Talk shows and appearances (4)
- 2026
- 2017
- 2011
- 2009