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Stephen and Timothy Quay (born 17 June 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States), are American identical twin brothers better known as the Brothers Quay or Quay Brothers. They are influential stop-motion animators. Norristown is a borough located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA. As of the 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 31,282. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Director Herbert Brenon with actress Alla Nazimova on the set of War Brides, 1916 A director is a person who directs the making of a film. ... An animator is one who is involved in the process of animation. ... is the 168th day of the year (169th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Norristown is a home rule municipality in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 6 miles (10 km) northwest of the city limits of Philadelphia, on the Schuylkill River. ... Stop motion is an animation technique which makes things that are static appear to be moving. ...

Careers

They reside and work in England where they moved in 1969 after studying illustration at the Philadelphia College of Art, now the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, to study at the Royal College of Art ^[1] There, they made their first short films, which no longer exist after the only print was irreparably damaged.^{[citation needed]} They spent some time in the Netherlands in the 1970s and then returned to England where they teamed up with another Royal College student, Keith Griffiths, who produced all of their films. The trio formed Koninck Studios in 1980, which is currently based in Southwark, south London. For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The Darwin Building at Kensington Gore The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a university in London, England. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... For other places with the same name, see Southwark (disambiguation). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

The Quays' works (1979-present) show a wide range of often esoteric influences, starting with the Polish animators Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica and continuing with the writers Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Robert Walser and Michel de Ghelderode, puppeteers Wladyslaw Starewicz and Richard Teschner and composers Leoš Janáček, Zdeněk Liška and Leszek Jankowski, the last of whom has created many original scores for their work. Czech animator Jan Švankmajer, for whom they named one of their films (The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer), is also frequently cited as a major influence, but they actually discovered his work relatively late, in 1983, by which time their characteristic style and preoccupations had been fully formed.^[2] Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Walerian Borowczyk (September 2, 1923 - February 3, 2006) was a Polish film director. ... Jan Lenica (1928-2001) was a Polish poster illustrator. ... Kafka redirects here. ... Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 – November 19, 1942) was a Polish writer, literary critic and graphic artist, widely considered to be one of the greatest Polish prose stylists of the 20th century. ... Robert Walser (April 15, 1878 near Biel/Bienne, Switzerland – December 25, 1956 near Herisau, Switzerland), was a German-speaking Swiss writer. ... Michel De Ghelderode (1898 - 1962) was an avante-garde Belgian dramatist, writing in French. ... LeoÅ¡ Janáček in 1928 LeoÅ¡ Janáček ( ; July 3, 1854 in Hukvaldy, Moravia, then Austrian empire – August 12, 1928 in Ostrava, then Czechoslovakia) was a Czech composer. ... ZdenÄ›k LiÅ¡ka (16 March 1922 – 13 August 1983) was a Czech composer who produced a large of number film scores across a prolific career that started towards the start of the 1950s. ... Dimensions of Dialogue, 1982 Jan Å vankmajer (born 4 September 1934 in Prague) is a Czech surrealist artist. ...

Most of their films feature dolls, often partially disassembled, in a dark, moody atmosphere. Perhaps their best known work is Street of Crocodiles, based on the short story of the same name by the Polish author and artist Bruno Schulz. This short film was selected by director and animator Terry Gilliam as one of the ten best animated films of all time^[3], and critic Jonathan Romney included it on his list of the ten best films in any medium (for Sight and Sound's 2002 critics' poll).^[4] They have made two feature-length live action films: Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life and The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes. They also directed an animated sequence in the film Frida. Street of Crocodiles is a 21 minute long stop-motion animation short subject directed and produced by the Brothers Quay and released in 1986. ... Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 – November 19, 1942) was a Polish writer, literary critic and graphic artist, widely considered to be one of the greatest Polish prose stylists of the 20th century. ... Terrence Vance Gilliam (born November 22, 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, animator, and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. ... Sight and Sound is a British monthly magazine about film. ... The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is the second feature-length film by The Brothers Quay and their first film in over ten years. ... For other uses, see Frida (disambiguation). ...

With very few exceptions, their films have no meaningful spoken dialogue—most have no spoken content at all, while some, like The Comb (1990) include multilingual background gibberish that is not supposed to be coherently understood. Accordingly, their films are highly reliant on their music scores, many of which have been written especially for them by the Polish composer Leszek Jankowski. In 2000, they contributed a short film to the BBC's Sound On Film series in which they visualised a 20-minute piece by the avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Whenever possible, the Quays prefer to work with pre-recorded music, though Gary Tarn's score for The Phantom Museum had to be added afterwards when it proved impossible to licence music by the Czech composer Zdeněk Liška. This article is about the year. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... Karlheinz Stockhausen (born August 22, 1928) is a German composer, and one of the most important and controversial composers of the 20th century (Barret 1988, 45; Harvey 1975b, 705; Hopkins 1972, 33; Klein 1968, 117; Power 1990, 30). ... ZdenÄ›k LiÅ¡ka (16 March 1922 – 13 August 1983) was a Czech composer who produced a large of number film scores across a prolific career that started towards the start of the 1950s. ...

They have created music videos for His Name Is Alive ("Are We Still Married", "Can't Go Wrong Without You"), Michael Penn ("Long Way Down (Look What the Cat Drug In)") and 16 Horsepower ("Black Soul Choir"). Some people mistakenly believe that the Quays are responsible for several music videos for Tool, but those videos were created by Fred Stuhr and member Adam Jones, whose work is influenced by the Quays. Although they worked on Peter Gabriel's seminal video "Sledgehammer" (1986) as animators, this was directed by Stephen R. Johnson and the Quays were unhappy with their contribution, believing it to be more imitative of Švankmajer's work than truly distinctive in its own right. A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ... His Name Is Alive is an experimental rock band/ project from Livonia, Michigan. ... Michael Penn (born August 1, 1958, in Greenwich Village, New York City) is an American singer and songwriter. ... David Eugene Edwards of 16 Horsepower performing live in 1998. ... Tool is an American rock band that was formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California. ... Adam Thomas Jones (born January 15, 1965 in Park Ridge, Illinois) is a Grammy Award-winning musician, guitarist and visual artist, best known for his work with the band Tool. ... Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950, in Cobham,[1] Surrey, England) is an English musician. ...

Their work also includes decors for the Theatre and Opera productions of director Richard Jones: Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges; Feydeau's "A Flea in Her Ear"; Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa; and Molière's "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.". Their set design for a revival of Ionesco's "The Chairs" was nominated for a Tony Award in 1998. Richard Jones (born 7 June 1953) is a British freelance opera and theatre director. ... Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: , Sergej Sergejevič Prokofijev; April 27 (April 151 O.S.), 1891–March 5, 1953) was a Russian and Soviet composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. ... Sergei Prokofiev // The Love for Three Oranges (Любовь к трём апельсинам in Russian, Lyubov k Tryom Apelsinam in transliteration) is an opera written in 1919 by Sergei Prokofiev to a libretto based on the play Lamore delle tre melarance by Carlo Gozzi. ... Georges Feydeau, (8 December 1862 - 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the era known as La Belle Epoque. ... “Tchaikovsky” redirects here. ... Mazeppa, also Mazepa (Russian: ) is an opera in three acts (six scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by Victor Burenin, based on Pushkins poem Poltava. ... For the 2007 film, see Molière (film). ... Eugène Ionesco Eugène Ionesco, born Eugen Ionescu, (November 26, 1909 – March 29, 1994) was a French-Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd. ... Les Chaises (English The Chairs) is an absurdist tragic farce by Eugene Ionesco. ... The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live American theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League [1] at an annual ceremony in New York City. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ...

Before turning to film, they worked as professional illustrators. The first edition of Anthony Burgess' novel "The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End", features their drawings before the start of each chapter. Nearly three decades before directly collaborating with Stockhausen, they designed the cover of the book Stockhausen: Conversations with the Composer (ed. Jonathan Cott, Simon & Schuster, 1973).

Filmography

Feature Films

• Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)
• The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2006)
• Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (TBA)

Short Films Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is the second feature-length film by The Brothers Quay and their first film in over ten years. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

• Nocturna Artificialia (1979)
• Punch And Judy (Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy) (1980)
• Ein Brudermord (1981)
• The Eternal Day Of Michel de Ghelderode (1981)
• Stravinsky - The Paris Years (1983)
• Leoš Janáček: Intimate Excursions (1983)
• The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer (1984)
• The Epic of Gilgamesh, or This Unnameable Little Broom (1985) aka Little Songs of the Chief Officer of Hunar Louse
• Street of Crocodiles (1986)
• Stille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988)
• Rehearsals For Extinct Anatomies (1988)
• Ex-Voto/The Pond (1989)
• The Comb (From The Museums Of Sleep) (1990)
• De Artificiali Perspectiva, or Anamorphosis (1991)
• The Calligrapher (1991) - an ident commissioned for the BBC2 television channel, but never broadcast
• Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? (1991)
• Long Way Down (Look What The Cat Drug In) (1992)
• Stille Nacht III: Tales From Vienna Woods (1992)
• Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You (1993)
• The Summit (1995)
• In Absentia (2000)
• The Sandman (2000)
• Duet (2000)
• Stille Nacht V: Dog Door (2001)
• The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (2003)

Appearances Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... AUGUST 25 1981 US Marine Sean Vance is Born on the 25th of August {ear nav|1981}} Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... AUGUST 25 1981 US Marine Sean Vance is Born on the 25th of August {ear nav|1981}} Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... For the Jimi Hendrix song, see 1983. ... For the Jimi Hendrix song, see 1983. ... This article is about the year. ... This article is about the year. ... Street of Crocodiles is a 21 minute long stop-motion animation short subject directed and produced by the Brothers Quay and released in 1986. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar. ... For the BBC radio station, see BBC Radio 2. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... This article is about the year. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• The Falls (1980)

The Falls is a 1980 film directed by Peter Greenaway. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ...

References

External links

• Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
• Through a Glass Darkly Interview with the Quay Brothers
• BFI Screenonline comprehensive survey of their major films
• Timothy Quay at the Internet Movie Database
• Stephen Quay at the Internet Movie Database

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