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	Shifting Realities: The Brothers Quay--Between Live Action and Animation
		The Brothers Quay are among the most accomplished animation artists to emerge in recent years.
		In scenes of elusive cinematic and literary reference which identify the Quays' films, one is obliquely reminded of silent filmmakers Kirsanov, Murnau, the surrealist Buñuel and the Russian film poet Tarkowsky; of Kafka (who was greatly influenced by Walser) and of essential myth and fairy tale.
		Seen as a whole, the Brothers Quay's works are independent of any definable genre; indeed, the imitation of their unique style which can be observed in films of other animators are a complimentary gesture to the auteur style they have developed.
	www.awn.com /mag/issue1.3/articles/buchan1.3.html (1430 words)

	Brothers Quay (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The work of the Brothers Quay, with its stop-motion animated figurines and its Old World atmosphere, looks like the lost art of a forgotten age, yet it remains more in the avant-garde than most of what falls under the rubric of animation these days.
		Other Quay inspirations include such proto-Surrealist authors as the early-20th-century Swiss writer Robert Walser (Benjamenta is based on his Jacob von Gunten) and Polish novelist Bruno Schulz ("Street of Crocodiles"), who was killed in the Holocaust.
		Although the shorts are full of furtive, skittering life, there is a sense of genteel, lethargic enervation; the sets and characters, for all their meticulous detail, have surfaces that appear weathered and worn by age and neglect.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/98/07/23/BROTHERS_QUAY.html (552 words)

	Zeitgeist Films
		Since the late 1970s, identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay have made a unique contribution to animation in general and the puppet film in particular.
		Filtering arcane visual, literary, musical, cinematic and philosophical influences through their own utterly distinctive sensibility, each Quay film rivets the attention through hypnotic control of décor, music and movement, evoking half-remembered dreams and long-suppressed childhood memories, fascinating and deeply unsettling in turn.
		Zeitgeist Films is proud to present Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers in beautiful slipcase packaging—with a 24-page, gorgeously illustrated booklet including an extensive Quay Brothers Dictionary and a new essay by film critic Michael Atkinson.
	www.zeitgeistfilms.com /videocatalog/product_info.php?products_id=121 (283 words)

	The Brothers Quay Criticism and Essays
		The Brothers Quay are best known for short "stop-motion" animated films in which puppets, broken dolls, rusted screws, old tools, and other "found" objects participate in highly metaphorical and psychosexually-charged vignettes that both depict and evoke feelings of angst and wonder.
		Frequently described as Kafkaesque and surreal, the Quays' work is inspired by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European literature—including the works of Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Robert Walser, and Michel de Ghelderode—and by the work of Eastern European and Russian avant-garde filmmakers—notably Alexander Alexeieff, Ladislaw Starewicz, Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Švankmajer, and Yuri Norstein.
		To an even greater degree than many of their literary influences, the Quays eschew linear storytelling for the evocation of intense psychological states by means of oneiric and obliquely sinister images accompanied by provocative sounds and music.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/brothers-quay (1383 words)

	indieWIRE: REVIEW \| Obscure Object: The Brothers Quay's "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
		Obscure Object: The Brothers Quay's "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
		By the end of the film, the Quays haven't injected their material with any real sense of mounting suspense around Malvina's rescue--the more collegial relationship between the antagonists coupled with the gradually ebbing narrative largely short circuits the kind of conventions filmmakers of a less, well, European bent would wring from this material.
		Brothers Quay, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Amira Casar, Anatomy of Hell, Cesar Saracho, Murnau, Sokurov, Mirrormask
	www.indiewire.com /movies/2006/11/reviews_obscure.html (319 words)

	Quay Brothers
		As is typical of all of their responses to such questions, the brothers' initial reply coyly played with the myth they had, perhaps, generated for themselves by stating that each has one atrophied testicle and a sly liking for geese (2).
		A major discovery for the Brothers – in The Street of Crocodiles – was the glass doll's-eye, which by its presence or absence implicates the viewer in the film's scopic dramas.
		The aesthetic of the Brothers Quay is ideally suited to this material, with their vision transforming each object into one that is simultaneously what it is and something that it isn't.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/04/quay_brothers.html (3662 words)

	Brothers Quay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stephen and Timothy Quay (born 17 June 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania), identical twin brothers better known as the Brothers Quay or Quay Brothers, are influential stop-motion animators.
		Whenever possible, the Quays prefer to work with pre-recorded music, though Gary Tarn's score for The Phantom Museum had to be added afterwards when it proved impossible to licence music by the Czech composer Zdeněk Liška.
		Some people mistakenly believe that the Quays are responsible for several music videos for Tool, but those videos were created by Fred Stuhr and member Adam Jones, whose work is influenced by the Quays.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brothers_Quay (822 words)

	DVD Outsider: Quay Brothers Short Films 1979-2003 DVD review
		A few years ago, Kino Video in the USA released a Quay Brothers collection on DVD that may not have been perfect, but given the difficulty of locating some of their films was nonetheless welcome.
		I have no doubt that the title is at least partly responsible for the frequently quoted link between the Quays and Svankmajer, especially with a plot that has a Prague-based master taking on a pupil (seen by some as the Quays themselves, perhaps?) and instructing him in the ways of his art.
		The Quays' interest in anamorphosis has led to them regularly screening some of their films in a stretched format, widescreen expanded to scope through the use of anamorphic projection lenses.
	www.dvdoutsider.co.uk /dvd/reviews/q/quay_brothers_short_films.html (2727 words)

	Through a Glass Darkly - Interview with the Quay Brothers
		This conversation with Stephen and Timothy Quay was recorded in October 2001 on the fringes of three separate events.
		Due to the particular nature of the interview with the Quay twins and their habit of finishing each other's sentences it was virtually impossible to distinguish in any given response who was giving the answer.
		Quays: Benjamin is approached in England –; from a highbrow, intimidating perspective.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/19/quay.html (8371 words)

	BROTHERS QUAY COLLECTION
		The animation and feel of those videos was inspired by the work of the Quay brothers, identical twins from Philadelphia.
		The Quays, in addition to using all kinds of gross-looking scrap metal, also employ what appears to be raw meat in many scenes.
		The work of the brothers Quay is heavily influenced by Czech surrealist animator Jan Svankmajer, whose films are a wild combination of live action and animation.
	www.geocities.com /gonzoriffic/reviews-brothersquay.html (235 words)

	indieWIRE: SHORTS MONTHLY: The Long Shadow of the Quay Brothers: The Maverick Animators and their Devotees
		Although the Quays made their first feature in 1995 ("Institute Benjamenta") and have another live action full-length entitled "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes" currently playing the festival circuit, they are best known for the 21-minute "Street of Crocodiles" (1986), which Terry Gilliam has ordained one of the ten best animated films of all time.
		The Quays, who call their work "puppet films" and admit they have "an errant sense of narrative," showed excerpts from their many shorts plus a few of the commercials they periodically do to keep their two-man studio financially solvent.
		Brothers Quay, Terry Gilliam, Institute Benjamenta, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Street of Crocodiles, Street of Crocodiles, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Bruce Davis, Justin Curfman, Shane Acker, 9, Tim Burton
	www.indiewire.com /movies/2006/05/shorts_monthly.html (981 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Brothers Quay (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is the world of the Brothers Quay, in which all kinds of incomprehensible objects and machines hold the stage while human characters remain at their mercy.
		The Brothers Quay take dreams as their models: they spin loose webs of associations, networks of images and metaphors that create a fragile, ethereal coherence in the midst of an essentially chaotic world.
		Apparently, the Brothers Quay have requested that their films be removed from this web site, so you won’t get any examples of their work here.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1262 (528 words)

	Dream team: the Brothers Quay - film and music video makers Stephen and Timothy ArtForum - Find Articles
		As such, Institute Benjamenta is as much a foray into the memory of film itself, a sensuous evocation of the cinema of the miraculous (Jean Cocteau, Luis Bunuel, Maya Deren, Sergei Paradjanov), as it is a fairy tale of spirits crushed by the soul-killing monotony of rules, repetition, and subordination.
		In reputation the Brothers Quay are wrapped in mystery, including whispers about their dense and dark London atelier (Koninck studios, which they founded in 1980 with their producer, Keith Griffiths), rumored to be crammed with such things as antique dolls in bell jars and stacks of crumbling insect wings.
		THE BROTHERS QUAY: "It" is the riddle, the enigma.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n8_v34/ai_18387598 (857 words)

	Brothers Quay: In Absentia
		The Brothers Quay are among the few directors of animated film to have attained fame through the torturous and sometimes inconvenient road of auteur cinema.
		Cult objects all over the world, these films are the fruit of autonomous projects by the Quay brothers and commissions from some of the most important television stations in Britain (BBC, Channel 4), of commercial networks like MTV, and from rock stars of the caliber of Peter Gabriel.
		Stephen and Timothy Quay were invited guests in Trieste as part of the event dedicated to the Galician (Central Europe) writer Bruno Schulz, whose work was the inspiration for one of their masterpieces, Street of Crocodiles.
	www.horschamp.qc.ca /new_offscreen/quay.html (1634 words)

	Perry Hoberman: Brothers Quay
		Devotees of the Czech animation maestro Jan Svankmajer, the Quays display a passion for detail, a breathtaking command of color and texture, and an uncanny use of focus and camera movement that make their films unique and instantly recognizable.
		Best known for their classic 1986 film Street of Crocodiles, which filmmaker Terry Gilliam recently selected as one of the ten best animated films of all time, they are masters of miniaturization and on their tiny sets have created an unforgettable world, suggestive of a landscape of long-repressed childhood dreams.
		The Quays have also directed pop promos for His Name is Alive, Michael Penn, Sparklehorse, 16 Horsepower, and Peter Gabriel, and have also directed ground-breaking commercials for, among others, The Partnership for a Drug Free America, Coca Cola, MTV, Nikon, and Slurpee.
	interactive.usc.edu /members/phoberman/archives/006501.html (192 words)

	Dreams: The Brothers Quay and "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
		And at the foot of this webpage, there is a series of links to articles about the Brothers Quay, plus links to examples of their adverts and music videos.
		This is an excerpt from a 2001 interview with the Brothers Quay, speaking to Phil Stubbs in their London studio about their status as American filmmakers operating within the UK.
		The Brothers Quay: Our leaving was only because we were going to go to school for three years at the Royal College of Art.
	www.smart.co.uk /dreams/quayptun.htm (2160 words)

	The Ensemble Sospeso - The Brothers Quay
		Sospeso presents the Quay Brothers' film In Absentia, a collaboration with Stockhausen, at the Sospeso Xponential concert on Tuesday, November 11, 2003.
		The extraordinary Brothers Quay are two of the world's most original and much imitated filmmakers.
		Strongly influenced, in their early careers, by the animation of Walerian Borowczyk and Ladislas Starewitch, the Quays display a great passion for detail, a breathtaking command of color and texture, and a deft use of focus and camera movement.
	www.sospeso.com /contents/composers_artists/quay.html (381 words)

	Amazon.com: The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993: DVD: Feliks Stawinski,Joy ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The surreal visions of the Brothers Quay, identical-twin animators from Minnesota who have since made London their home, are an offbeat mix of clockwork mechanics, wire, thread, and 19th-century curios, all set to life in a series of beautiful but elusive set pieces.
		Of course, the Quays are better known for their stop-motion shorts, and when I mentioned "Benjamenta" to a friend, he loaned me a tape with "Street of Crocodiles" and a few others.
		Experiencing a film produced by the Quays is a lot like watching a travelogue through one of those 19th Century cabinets of curiosities that vied with wax museums for the attention of a public that still had neither television or radio for entertainment.
	www.amazon.com /Brothers-Quay-Collection-Astonishing-1984-1993/dp/6305957681 (2284 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Brothers Quay Collection (2000) - Printable
		The Brothers Quay (Timothy and Steven) are indentical twins living in England.
		This DVD presents 10 of the Brothers Quay's short films (technically 11 since theirvery first short is presented as an extra feature.
		This short is, to the bestof my knowledge, the earliest Quay short still in existence (their film school workwas, sadly, lost some time ago).
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showrevpdf.php3?ID=345 (1143 words)

	Brothers Quay (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thanks Mom for sending out the Brothers Quay Collection DVD for xmas.
		I saw some of these at the Castro Theatre about 5 years ago, and while they don't convert to DVD so well (I can't believe some of them are not letterboxed!!) it's a real treat to be able to fall asleep to these stop-motion animation masterpieces.
		The Brothers Quay are mysterious twin brothers from the USA who moved to Europe and make obscure fl and white or sepia tone animated shorts with dirty dolls, archaic gadgetry, nuts and bolts, other found objects, and the occasional real live person.
	mytlc.com /michael/one-entry?entry_id=31573 (243 words)

	The Brothers Quay (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brothers Quay: We started off as illustrators, drawers, and it was because we became frustrated by the stillness of that image, the lack of sound, of depth, of music, we figured there had to be another way to go.
		The Quay Brother's blend of beautiful animation and mystery has always mystified and terrified me. I was always envious of their creativity.
		Seeing Street of Crocodiles and some of the Quay's other short films some years ago was one of those experiences that changed me forever, and I continue to wait impatiently for each new film.
	old.thing.net /ttreview/febrev.02.html (2106 words)

	The Brothers Quay \| Academy Events Calendar \| AMPAS
		Identical twins born near Philadelphia, the brothers were heavily influenced by the Eastern European immigrant culture of their area and eventually moved to London where they have made most of their films.
		Known for their unique “two heads as one” working process whereby they alternate finishing each other’s sentences, their works are filled with images both bizarre and awe-inspiring, not only for their impressionistic effects, but for their precise, yet mystifying craftsmanship.
		Join the Quays for their first speaking engagement in the United States as they discuss the influences on their work and screen several of their acclaimed films.
	www.oscars.org /events/past/2006/quay_bros/index.html (163 words)

	The Brothers Quay Collection - Kino on Video
		Here, collected in one volume for the first time, are ten exquisite stop-motion animation masterpieces by the Brothers Quay made from 1984 through 1993.
		Identical twins born in Pennsylvania, the Quays reside in London in publicity-shy seclusion, making their innovative films under the aegis of Koninck Studios.
		With their passion for detail, their breathtaking command of color and texture, and their astonishing use of focus and camera movement, they turn miniature sets into unforgettable worlds, suggestive of Kafkaesque nightmares of menace and decay, or the landscapes of long-repressed childhood dreams.
	www.kino.com /video/item.php?film_id=38 (232 words)

	Brothers Quay
		The Brothers Quay are two identical twins, Stephen and Timothy, and were born in Pennsylvania, but live in London to be able to make their films that otherwise might not be made in the u.s.
		The Brothers had gone to art school but hadnt explored animation until they were 32 years old.
		The Brothers have a few sets and puppets are on permanent exhibition at The Museum of the Moving Image in London.
	cbg15.tripod.com /quay.htm (446 words)

	fps: The Magazine of Animation: Brothers Quay Presentation in Beverly Hills
		This year the tenth presentation is being held on April 21, and the featured guests are none other than the Brothers Quay—which, interestingly enough, continues the current love affair with stop-motion animation.
		Heavily influenced by Jan Svankmajer, the Quays' work has more in common with the gothic aesthetic of Corpse Bride than the brightness of Curse of the Were-Rabbit, but their puppet work has more of the rough, handmade quality of the latter than the slickness of the former.
		This is the Quays' first speaking engagement in the USA, and they'll be screening some of their short films and speaking about their work.
	www.fpsmagazine.com /2006/03/brothers-quay-presentation-in-beverly.php (265 words)

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