Timothy Quay
Directing
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.
Born: June 17, 1947 · Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
Filmography (24)
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
2025
Quay
2015
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
2013
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011
Maska
2010
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
2005
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
2003
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
2001
In Absentia
2000
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
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
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 Falls
1982
Nocturna Artificialia
1979