- Description:
- BluRay - Zone A. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
color.
sound.
- Notes:
- Supplemental features include: audio commentary by the Quays; booklet with essays and “A Quay Brothers Dictionary.”
Titles
+ Cabinet of Jan Svankmayer, The
- Director:
- Quay Brothers
- Production Co:
- Atelier Koninck QBFZ
- Running Time:
- Short. 14 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1984
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Nine animated segments by Brothers Quay and Keith Griffiths, originally made for television programme VISIONS, to illustrate the work of Jan Svankmajer.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ This Unnameable Little Broom (The Epic of Gilgamesh)
- Director:
- Quay Brothers
- Running Time:
- Short. 11 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1985
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Loosely based on the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh, here Gilgamesh is portrayed as a Picasso-esque being on a tricycle.
+ Street of Crocodiles
- Alternate Title:
- Bruno Schulz’s Street of Crocodiles; Ulica Krokodyli
- Director:
- Quay Brothers
- Production Co:
- Channel 4
- Running Time:
- Short. 21 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1986
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
+ Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
- Director:
- Quay Brothers
- Production Co:
- Atelier Koninck QBFZ
- Running Time:
- Short. 14 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1987
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
+ Stille Nacht I (Dramolet)
- Director:
- Quay Brothers
- Production Co:
- Atelier Koninck QBFZ; MTV
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1988
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
+ Comb, The (From the Museums of Sleep)
- Director:
- Quay Brothers
- Production Co:
- Channel 4
- Running Time:
- Short. 18 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1990
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
+ De Artificiali Perspectiva, or Anamorphosis
- Director:
- Quay Brothers
- Production Co:
- Program for Art on Film; Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Running Time:
- Short. 14 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1991
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
+ Stille Nacht II (Are We Still Married?)
- Director:
- Quay Brothers
- Production Co:
- 4AD
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1992
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, Music Video
- Notes:
- Music video for the band His Name is Alive.
+ Stille Nacht III (Tales from Vienna Woods)
- Director:
- Quay Brothers
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1993
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
+ Stille Nacht IV (Can’t Go Wrong Without You)
- Director:
- Quay Brothers
- Production Co:
- 4AD
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 1994
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, Music Video
- Notes:
- Music video for the band His Name is Alive.
+ In Absentia
- Director:
- Quay Brothers
- Production Co:
- Illuminations Films; Atelier Koninck QBFZ
- Running Time:
- Short. 20 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 2000
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- A woman alone in a room repeatedly writes a letter with tiny broken off pieces of pencil lead. Outside her window, vistas of ever changing light register her every emotion.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Phantom Museum, The (Random Forays into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome’s Medical Collection)
- Director:
- Quay Brothers
- Production Co:
- Atelier Koninck QBFZ
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 2003
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- A museum containing medical artifacts comes to life.
+ Maska
- Director:
- Quay Brothers
- Production Co:
- Se-ma-for; Polish Film Institute
- Running Time:
- Short. 24 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- United Kingdom, Poland
- Year:
- 2010
- Language:
- Polish and English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Based on a short story by Stanslaw Lem, with music by Krzystof Penderecki.
+ Through the Weeping Glass (On the Consolations of Life Everlasting)
- Director:
- Quay Brothers
- Production Co:
- Mütter Muszea; Atelier Koninck QBFZ; Pro Bono Films
- Running Time:
- Short. 31 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 2011
- Language:
- English with optional English subtitles
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Documentary, Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Documentary on the collections of historical instruments and medical ‘anomalies’ at the Philadelphia College of Physicians.
+ Unmistaken Hands (Ex Voto “F.H.”)
- Director:
- Quay Brothers
- Production Co:
- Atelier Koninck QBFZ; Pro Bono Films
- Running Time:
- Short. 26 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- United Kingdom, USA
- Year:
- 2013
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- Fragments and motifs from the writings of Uruguayan writer Felisberto Hernández.
+ Quay
- Director:
- Nolan, Christopher
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Year:
- 2015
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Documentary about the Quay Brothers, their studio, and their working methods.
