Stephen Quay
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.
Top Filmography
Quay
2015 // MOVIE
The Falls
1982 // MOVIE
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
2003 // MOVIE
The Bug Trainer
2009 // MOVIE
The Music of Zdeněk Liška
2017 // MOVIE
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015 // MOVIE
Inside The Institute
2010 // MOVIE
The Art of Time
2009 // MOVIE
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
2006 // MOVIE
Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers
2011 // MOVIE