Stephen Quay

Directing Jun 17, 1947 (79 years old) Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA

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.

10 Acting Credits

49 Crew Credits

Stephen Quay

Acting

Quay

The Falls

The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection

The Bug Trainer

The Music of Zdeněk Liška

The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin

Inside The Institute

The Art of Time

The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"

Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers

Crew

Street of Crocodiles

Quay

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

Stille Nacht I: Dramolet

Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?

The Comb

In Absentia

This Unnameable Little Broom

Anamorphosis

Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies