Directing
Timothy Quay
Born June 17, 1947 Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Directed Films
5.8
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
2025·Animation
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Ghosts and Whispers
2022·Music
6.0
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
2021·Documentary
7.0
VadeMecum
2021·Documentary
6.0
The Doll's Breath
2019·Animation
6.1
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
2013·Animation
6.4
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011·Documentary
6.0
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
2010·Animation
7.0
Maska
2010·Animation
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Kinoteka Ident
2009
5.6
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
2007·Music
6.5
Alice in Not So Wonderland
2007·Animation
9.0
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
2007
6.3
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
2005·Romance
6.0
Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003
2004·Animation
6.4
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
2003·Animation
5.2
Songs for Dead Children
2003·Animation
6.0
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
2001·Music
5.8
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
2001·Animation
6.3
The Sandman
2000·Drama
6.5
In Absentia
2000·Animation
6.0
The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993
2000·Animation
7.8
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
1995·Drama
5.3
The Summit
1995·Animation
