Stephen Quay

Explore Stephen Quay's movie filmography on ReelBot, including film credits, roles, release dates, ratings, and movie details.

Directing

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.

Filmography

• Sledgehammer Revealed (2026)
• Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2025)
• The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz (2022)
• Ghosts and Whispers (2022)
• 11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem (2021)
• VadeMecum (2021)
• The Doll's Breath (2019)
• The Music of Zdeněk Liška (2017)
• The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin (2015)
• Quay (2015)
• Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (2013)
• Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers (2011)
• Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) (2011)
• Wonderwood: Comme des garçons (2010)
• Maska (2010)
• Inside The Institute (2010)
• The Art of Time (2009)
• Kinoteka Ident (2009)
• The Bug Trainer (2009)
• Inventorium of Traces (2009)
• Eurydice: She, So Beloved (2007)
• Alice in Not So Wonderland (2007)
• Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers (2007)
• The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes" (2006)
• The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005)
• Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003 (2004)
• The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (2003)
• Songs for Dead Children (2003)
• Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse (2001)
• Stille Nacht V: Dog Door (2001)
• The Sandman (2000)
• In Absentia (2000)
• The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993 (2000)
• Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)
• The Summit (1995)
• Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You (1993)
• Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods (1993)
• Anamorphosis (1993)
• Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? (1992)
• The Comb (1991)
• The Calligrapher (1991)
• Ex Voto (1989)
• Rain Dance (1988)
• Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)
• Stille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988)
• Tales of the Brothers Quay (1987)
• Street of Crocodiles (1986)
• This Unnameable Little Broom (1985)
• The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer (1984)
• The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film (1984)
• Janáček: Intimate Excursions (1983)
• The Falls (1982)
• Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929 (1982)
• A Fratricide (1981)
• Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy (1981)
• The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode (1981)
• Nocturna Artificialia (1979)
• Kieślowski by Quays