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.
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A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself....
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A compilation of shorts by the Quay Brothers presented as a feature film....
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A magnet moves on a floor. A moth beats against a window. A doll child watches the magnet; threads o...
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With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceil...
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Stop-motion animated short film with a white ball, a rabbit, and a girl, and a voice singing "Are We...
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Short animated film featuring the song "Can't Go Wrong Without You" by His Name Is Alive....
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Near an extraordinary chair with many legs, a hand is visible gripping an edge. The hand is weathere...
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Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) t...
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A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spo...
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The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers....
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
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| 1 | Quay (2015) | Self | 5.7 | |
| 2 | Kinoteka Ident (2009) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 3 | Alice in Not So Wonderland (2007) | Director / Writer | 9 | |
| 4 | In Absentia (2000) | Director / Writer | 8 | |
| 5 | Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995) | Director / Writer | 5.5 | |
| 6 | Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You (1993) | Director / Writer | 9 | |
| 7 | Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods (1993) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 8 | Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? (1992) | Director / Writer | 9 | |
| 9 | The Comb (1991) | Director / Writer | 8 | |
| 10 | The Calligrapher (1991) | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 11 | Stille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988) | Director / Writer | 5.5 | |
| 12 | Tales of the Brothers Quay (1987) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 13 | Street of Crocodiles (1986) | Director / Writer | 8.5 | |
| 14 | This Unnameable Little Broom (1985) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 15 | The Falls (1982) | Pulat Fallari | - | - |

