Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Mutant robots etching spirals - gotta love it. But did the wire balls truly make it to the top of the stairs?
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Stephen Quay
Films
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Nocturna Artificialia
A dreamer is seduced by the mystery of the city at night. He leaves his room and goes into the street, where a tram-car carries him away. “As with much of their later work, it’s impossible to provide a coherent synopsis of the earliest surviving film by the Quay Brothers, as NOCTURNA ARTIFICIALIA defies...Start your free trial to watch
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The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer
This early film by renowned animators Stephen and Timothy Quay is structured as a series of little lessons in perception, taught by a puppet simulacrum of Jan Svankmajer (whose head is an opened book) to a doll (whose head the master empties of dross and refills with a similar open book). Each of the nine...Start your free trial to watch
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This Unnameable Little Broom
This piece was originally conceived as a pilot for a series which never materialized due to lack of funding. Alternative title: LITTLE SONGS OF THE CHIEF OFFICER OF HUNAR LOUSE (BEING A LARGELY DISGUISED REDUCTION OF THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH) “in which Gilgamesh sends a prostitute to seduce the wild man of...Start your free trial to watch
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Street of Crocodiles
Stephen and Timothy Quay's masterpiece, STREET OF CROCODILES is adapted from the book by Polish writer Bruno Schulz and was their first film shot on 35mm. A museum keeper spits into the eyepiece of an ancient peep-show and sets the musty machine in motion, plunging the viewer into a nightmarish netherworld...Start your free trial to watch
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Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
In the fragile immobility of a room, a couple waits as twilight advances, alternately oblivious to and made anxious by presentiments of some brutal destruction being remorselessly rehearsed outside their door. Loosely inspired by an etching by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.Start your free trial to watch
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The Comb
THE COMB opens in the shadowy bedroom of a sleeping beauty and seems to enter her mind and burrow into her dreams. Based on a fragment of text by the Austrian writer Robert Walser, THE COMB is an exploration of the subconscious visualized as a labyrinthine playhouse haunted by a doll-like explorer. A mesmerizing and resonant...Start your free trial to watch
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Stille Nacht II
A three minute animated choreography with an ethereal pop soundtrack by the remarkable band His Name Is Alive. With a typically eccentric cast of a ragged doll, a white rabbit and a manic ping-pong ball, Stephen and Timothy Quay construct a hypnotic, beguiling and vaguely menacing ballet, something like a music video made by...Start your free trial to watch
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Anamorphosis
Stephen and Timothy Quay's interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the concept of ANAMORPHOSIS. This artistic technique, often used in the 16th and 17th centuries, utilizes a method of visual distortion with which paintings, when viewed from different angles,...Start your free trial to watch
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In Absentia
IN ABSENTIA is a remarkable collaboration between filmmakers Stephen and Timothy Quay and the celebrated avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (who composed and conducted the original music for the film). Shot in black and white (and, occasionally, color) in Cinemascope, IN ABSENTIA combines live action and animation...Start your free trial to watch
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The Phantom Museum
Random forays into one of the world's most extraordinary museum collections: Sir Henry Wellcome's unique trove of medical curiosities. With their customary dexterity and affinity for arcane, Stephen and Timothy Quay imaginatively document this unique assemblage and bring it hauntingly to life.Start your free trial to watch
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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES is the breathtakingly beautiful and long-awaited second feature from Stephen and Timothy Quay. On the eve of her wedding, the beautiful opera singer Malvina is mysteriously killed and abducted by a malevolent Dr. Droz. Felisberto, an innocent piano tuner, is summoned to...Start your free trial to watch
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Recent Reviews
Anamorphosis
Eh, kinda blah, hadn't seen these paintings.
Nocturna Artificialia
It is at night that the solitary being feels his loneliness the most. He must than create a world of his own through the banal objects around him. Than he...
The Phantom Museum
The Quay Brothers own unusual take on Wellcomes' collection of "medical" oddities, mostly mannequins used for demonstration purposes, makes them seem more bizarre than they were meant to be. A...
