Timothy Quay
Directing · Born Jun 17, 1947 · Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
Timothy Quay was born in 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA, as the identical twin of Stephen Quay. He studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and later at the Royal College of Art in London, where he began working with his brother in experimental animation. Timothy has directed and co-directed numerous 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 distinguished by surreal, detailed atmospheres, frozen worlds, and objects full of history, with a constant collaboration alongside Stephen throughout his career.
Known for
Directed
Postscriptum. Ruminations on My Craft
2026
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
20255.8
Ghosts and Whispers
2022
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
20216.0
VadeMecum
20217.0
The Doll's Breath
20196.0
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
20136.1
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
20116.4
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
20106.0
Maska
20107.0
Kinoteka Ident
2009
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
20075.6
Alice in Not So Wonderland
20076.2
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
20079.0
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
20056.3
Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003
20046.0
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
20036.2
Songs for Dead Children
20035.2
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
20016.0
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
20015.8
The Sandman
20006.3
In Absentia
20006.5
The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993
20006.0
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
19957.6
The Summit
19955.3
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
19936.9
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
19936.1
Anamorphosis
19936.6
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
19926.1
The Comb
19916.7
The Calligrapher
19916.4
Ex Voto
19894.0
Rain Dance
19885.0
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
19886.6
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
19886.4
Tales of the Brothers Quay
19876.9
Street of Crocodiles
19866.6
This Unnameable Little Broom
19856.2
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
19846.9
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
19846.0
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
19816.3
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
19816.7
Nocturna Artificialia
19795.9
