Stephen Quay
Stephen Quay was born in 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied illustration at the Philadelphia College of Art and later continued his education at the Royal College of Art in London, where he met his twin brother Timothy and began collaborating in animation. Together, they founded Atelier Koninck and produced their first experimental short films in the late 1970s. Throughout his career, Stephen has directed and co-directed 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 characterized by dreamlike, detailed, and symbolic worlds, often using dolls and carefully crafted objects to create surreal and unsettling atmospheres.
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Films
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TV Shows
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Crew Credits
Known For
9 Credits
Quay
as Self
2015
The Falls
as Ipson Fallari
1982
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
as Librarian
2003
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
Inside The Institute
2010
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
2006
The Art of Time
2009
The Bug Trainer
as Self - stop-motion animator
2009
Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers
as Self
2011
Behind the Camera
42 Credits
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Director, Writer
1995
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Director
2025
Street of Crocodiles
Director, Writer
1986
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
Director
1984
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Writer, Director
2007
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Director, Writer
2005
This Unnameable Little Broom
Director, Writer
1985
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
Director
2003
Anamorphosis
Director
1993
The Doll's Breath
Director
2019
Nocturna Artificialia
Director
1979
The Comb
Director, Writer
1991