Stephen Quay

Director

Born: June 17, 1947 (age 79)
From: 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…

Filmography (57)

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2025)
Director
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz (2022)
Director
Ghosts and Whispers (2022)
Director
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem (2021)
Director
VadeMecum (2021)
Director
The Doll's Breath (2019)
Director
The Music of Zdeněk Liška
The Music of Zdeněk Liška (2017)
Self
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin (2015)
Quay (2015)
Self
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (2013)
Director
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) (2011)
Director
Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers (2011)
Self
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons (2010)
Director
Maska (2010)
Director
Inside The Institute (2010)
The Art of Time (2009)
Kinoteka Ident (2009)
Director
The Bug Trainer (2009)
Self - stop-motion animator
Inventorium of Traces
Inventorium of Traces (2009)
Director
Eurydice: She, So Beloved (2007)
Director
Alice in Not So Wonderland (2007)
Director
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers (2007)
Director
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes" (2006)
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005)
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Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003 (2004)
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The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (2003)
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Songs for Dead Children (2003)
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Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse (2001)
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Stille Nacht V: Dog Door (2001)
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The Sandman (2000)
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