Timothy Quay
Directing
Born: 1947-06-17 · Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
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 (2
🎬 Movies (30)
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
2025
Director
Ghosts and Whispers
2022
Director
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz
2022
Director
VadeMecum
2021
Director
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
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
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
Maska
2010
Director
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
2010
Director
The Bug Trainer
2009
Self - stop-motion animator
The Art of Time
2009
Self
Inventorium of Traces
2009
Director
Kinoteka Ident
2009
Director
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
2007
Director
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
2007
Director
Alice in Not So Wonderland
2007
Director
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
2006
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
2005
Director
Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003
2004
Director
Songs for Dead Children
2003
Director
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
2003
Director
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
2001
Director
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
2001
Director
In Absentia
2000
Director
The Sandman
2000
Director