Alice in Not So Wonderland

Alice in Not So Wonderland

The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers.

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Songs for Dead Children

Songs for Dead Children

Another short, grainy film from the Quay Brothers. This one has funny singing in it.

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Maska

Maska

"Maska" is the latest animated film of Quay brothers, directors and puppet animators, with the music composed by Krzysztof Penderecki. The film is...

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Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy

Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy

An unusual documentary from the Brothers Quay and Keith Griffiths about the history of the Punch and Judy puppet show.

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Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods

Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods

Near an extraordinary chair with many legs, a hand is visible gripping an edge. The hand is weathered, the fingers cracked and scarred. The end of...

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Ghosts and Whispers

Ghosts and Whispers

An unbroken sequence of fragments, last thoughts, elegies and absences by Schubert, Mozart, Wagner, Janáček, Stravinsky, Jacquet de la Guerre and...

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Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929

Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929

Igor: The Paris Years, one segment of a larger biographical program created for Channel 4 on the life and times of Igor Stravinsky, finds the...

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The Calligrapher

The Calligrapher

With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink...

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The Doll's Breath

The Doll's Breath

Afraid of losing his wife, Horatio creates a replica he calls Hortensia. But things don't go as planned... Shot on 35mm and propelled by an...

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Eurydice: She, So Beloved

Eurydice: She, So Beloved

Commissioned by Opera North, the Brothers Quay created the installation and film 'She, So Beloved' inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem ‘Orpheus...

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Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

In a realm beyond the senses, plants interact with surreal cinematography to chart the course of our character: an entity said to embody the life...

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Stille Nacht V: Dog Door

Stille Nacht V: Dog Door

Tom Waits, the brothers Quay, and a dog door.

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Kinoteka Ident

Kinoteka Ident

Opening sequence for the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival.

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Ex Voto

Ex Voto

An extremely obscure minute-long short by the Brothers Quay in 1989. Animation appears to be done in 'Cutout' style, is abstract and plotless -...

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The Summit

The Summit

Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.

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Wonderwood: Comme des garçons

Wonderwood: Comme des garçons

A bird acts as an alchemist in an enchanted forest, selecting different kinds of wood to combine them in a parquet floor.

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Inventorium of Traces

Inventorium of Traces

In the Renaissance castle of the Polish count - Jan Potocki - in Lancut, the modern traces of a past glory persevere and become visible again at...

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VadeMecum

VadeMecum

VadeMecum is a new short produced by the Palme d’Or-nominated animators Stephen and Timothy Quay. The film shows the life and works of Polish poet...

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11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem

11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem

To mark the centenary of the great science fiction writer, Stanislaw Lem, we present this tribute by the legendary stop motion animators Stephen...

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Rain Dance

Rain Dance

A farming family and their livestock dance during a much-needed downpour in this Quay Brothers short made for Sesame Street.

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