Timothy Quay

Director

Born: June 17, 1947 (age 79)
From: 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…

Filmography (56)

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)
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Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers (2011)
Self
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons (2010)
Director
Maska (2010)
Director
The Art of Time (2009)
Self
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)
Director
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)
Director
Songs for Dead Children (2003)
Director
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse (2001)
Director
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door (2001)
Director
The Sandman (2000)
Director
In Absentia (2000)
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