Timothy Quay
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday17 June 1947 (79 years old)
Place of birthNorristown, Pennsylvania, USA
Known credits57
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…
Sledgehammer Revealed
2026 · Self
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
2025 · Animation
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
2025 · Director
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
2025 · Screenplay
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
2025 · Sound
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
2025 · Editor
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz
2022 · Director
Ghosts and Whispers
2022 · Director
Ghosts and Whispers
2022 · Animation
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
2021 · Director
VadeMecum
2021 · Director
The Doll's Breath
2019 · Director
The Music of Zdeněk Liška
2017 · Self
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
Quay
2015 · Self
Quay
2015 · Thanks
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
2013 · Animation
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
2013 · Writer
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
2013 · Director
Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers
2011 · Self
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011 · Director
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011 · Editor
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011 · Sound
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011 · Animation
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
2010 · Director
Maska
2010 · Director
Maska
2010 · Writer
The Art of Time
2009 · Self
Kinoteka Ident
2009 · Director
The Bug Trainer
2009 · Self - stop-motion animator
Inventorium of Traces
2009 · Editor
Inventorium of Traces
2009 · Director of Photography
Inventorium of Traces
2009 · Sound Designer
Inventorium of Traces
2009 · Director
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
2007 · Set Designer
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
2007 · Editor
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
2007 · Director
Alice in Not So Wonderland
2007 · Writer
Alice in Not So Wonderland
2007 · Cinematography
Alice in Not So Wonderland
2007 · Director
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
2007 · Director
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
2006
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
2005 · Director
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
2005 · Writer
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
2005 · Production Design
Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003
2004 · Director
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
2003 · Director
Songs for Dead Children
2003 · Director
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