TQ

Timothy Quay

Director, Writer, Editor, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn June 17, 1947 (78 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life

Known For

  • Street of Crocodiles
  • Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life
  • The Comb
  • Stille Nacht: Dramolet
  • This Unnameable Little Broom
  • Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
  • The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes
  • Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
  • The Falls
  • The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer
  • Nocturna Artificialia
  • In Absentia
  • Are We Still Married?
  • The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
  • Tales from Vienna Woods: Stille Nacht III.
  • Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
  • Songs for Dead Children
  • Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
  • Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

Timothy Quay Filmography

2015
Quay · as Self
2008
The Bug Trainer · as Self - Stop-Motion Animator
2004
Kulturplatz (TV Series) · as Self
2002
Celluloid Dreams · as Self
2001
Short circuit (TV Series) · as Self
1991
Movie Days (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee

2015
1980
The Falls · as Pulat Fallari

2024
2024
2022
Ghosts and Whispers · as Animation
2013
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. · as Cinematographer
2013
2011
2011
2009
Inventorium of Traces · as Art Director
2009
Inventorium of Traces · as Director Of Photography
2009
Inventorium of Traces · as Sound Designer
2004
The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes · as Production Design
2003
Songs for Dead Children · as Production Designer
2000
In Absentia · as Cinematographer
1993
1993
1993
1993
1992
Are We Still Married? · as Production Designer
1992
Are We Still Married? · as Cinematographer
1991
1991
1991
1991
The Comb · as Art Direction
1991
The Comb · as Cinematographer
1991
The Comb · as Animation
1988
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies · as Production Designer
1988
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies · as Cinematographer
1986
Street of Crocodiles · as Production Design
1986
Street of Crocodiles · as Cinematographer
1986
Street of Crocodiles · as Animation
1985
This Unnameable Little Broom · as Director Of Photography
1982
The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer · as Production Designer
1982
The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer · as Director Of Photography
1979
Nocturna Artificialia · as Set Decorator
1979
Nocturna Artificialia · as Cinematographer

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