
Directing
Timothy Quay
Directing · Born 1947-06-17 · 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 (1979), Street of Crocodiles (1986), Institute Benjamenta (1995), and The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005). His work is distinguished by surreal, detailed atmospheres, frozen worlds, and objects full of history, with a constant collaboration alongside Stephen throughout his career.
Credits · 50
FilmSanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
2025 · Animation
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz
FilmThe Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz
2022 · Director
Film11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
2021 · Director
FilmVadeMecum
2021 · Director
FilmThe Doll's Breath
2019 · Director
The Music of Zdeněk Liška
FilmThe Music of Zdeněk Liška
2017 · Self
FilmThe 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
FilmQuay
2015 · Self
FilmUnmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
2013 · Animation
FilmThrough the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011 · Director
FilmWonderwood: Comme des garçons
2010 · Director
FilmMaska
2010 · Director
FilmThe Bug Trainer
2009 · Self - stop-motion animator
Inventorium of Traces
FilmInventorium of Traces
2009 · Editor
FilmEurydice: She, So Beloved
2007 · Set Designer
FilmAlice in Not So Wonderland
2007 · Writer
FilmPhantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
2007 · Director
FilmThe Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
2005 · Director
FilmQuay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003
2004 · Director
FilmThe Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
2003 · Director
FilmSongs for Dead Children
2003 · Director
FilmSonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
2001 · Director
FilmStille Nacht V: Dog Door
2001 · Director
FilmThe Sandman
2000 · Director
FilmIn Absentia
2000 · Director
FilmThe Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993
2000 · Director
FilmInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
1995 · Director
FilmThe Summit
1995 · Director
FilmStille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
1993 · Director
FilmStille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
1993 · Director
FilmAnamorphosis
1993 · Director
FilmStille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
1992 · Director
FilmThe Comb
1991 · Director
FilmThe Calligrapher
1991 · Director
FilmEx Voto
1989 · Director
FilmRain Dance
1988 · Director
FilmRehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
1988 · Director
FilmStille Nacht I: Dramolet
1988 · Director
FilmTales of the Brothers Quay
1987 · Director
FilmStreet of Crocodiles
1986 · Director
FilmThis Unnameable Little Broom
1985 · Director
FilmThe Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
1984 · Director
FilmThe Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film
1984 · Director
Janáček: Intimate Excursions
FilmJanáček: Intimate Excursions
1983 · Director
FilmThe Falls
1982 · Pulat Fallari
Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929
FilmIgor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929
1982 · Director
A Fratricide
FilmA Fratricide
1981 · Director
FilmPunch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
1981 · Director
FilmThe Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
1981 · Director
FilmNocturna Artificialia
1979 · Director