Timothy Quay
Born: 1947-06-17 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For: Directing
Biography
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.
Filmography
2025
- Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass ... (Animation)
2022
- The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz ... (Director)
- Ghosts and Whispers ... (Director)
2021
- 11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem ... (Director)
- VadeMecum ... (Director)
2019
- The Doll's Breath ... (Director)
2017
- The Music of Zdeněk Liška as Self
2015
- Quay as Self
- The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2013
- Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. ... (Animation)
2011
2010
- Maska ... (Director)
- Wonderwood: Comme des garçons ... (Director)
2009
- Inventorium of Traces ... (Editor)
- The Art of Time as Self
- Kinoteka Ident ... (Director)
- The Bug Trainer as Self - stop-motion animator
2007
- Eurydice: She, So Beloved ... (Set Designer)
- Alice in Not So Wonderland ... (Writer)
- Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers ... (Director)
2005
- The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes ... (Director)
2004
- Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003 ... (Director)
2003
- Songs for Dead Children ... (Director)
- The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection ... (Director)
2001
- Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse ... (Director)
- Stille Nacht V: Dog Door ... (Director)
2000
- The Sandman ... (Director)
- In Absentia ... (Director)
- The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993 ... (Director)
1995
- Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life ... (Director)
- The Summit ... (Director)
1993
- Anamorphosis ... (Director)
- Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You ... (Director)
- Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods ... (Director)
1992
- Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? ... (Director)
1991
- The Comb ... (Director)
- The Calligrapher ... (Director)
1989
- Ex Voto ... (Director)
1988
- Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies ... (Director)
- Stille Nacht I: Dramolet ... (Director)
- Rain Dance ... (Director)
1987
- Tales of the Brothers Quay ... (Director)
1986
- Street of Crocodiles ... (Director)
1985
- This Unnameable Little Broom ... (Director)
1984
- The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer ... (Director)
- The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film ... (Director)
1983
- Janáček: Intimate Excursions ... (Director)
1982
- Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929 ... (Director)
1981
- Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy ... (Director)
- The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode ... (Director)
- A Fratricide ... (Director)
1980
- The Falls as Pulat Fallari
1979
- Nocturna Artificialia ... (Director)