
Timothy Quay
Director
Born: June 17, 1947 (78 years old)
Place of birth: 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 (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.
Filmography (25)
- The Falls (1982, ★ 7.2)
- Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995, ★ 7.7)
- Quay (2015, ★ 6.1)
- The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005, ★ 6.3)
- Tales of the Brothers Quay (1987, ★ 6.9)
- The Comb (1991, ★ 6.7)
- Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? (1992, ★ 6)
- Anamorphosis (1993, ★ 6.5)
- The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer (1984, ★ 6.9)
- Nocturna Artificialia (1979, ★ 5.8)
- Street of Crocodiles (1986, ★ 6.6)
- Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988, ★ 6.6)
- This Unnameable Little Broom (1985, ★ 6.1)
- Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods (1993, ★ 5.9)
- Stille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988, ★ 6.3)
- Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You (1993, ★ 6.7)
- Stille Nacht V: Dog Door (2001, ★ 5.8)
- In Absentia (2000, ★ 6.3)
- Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) (2011, ★ 6.4)
- Maska (2010, ★ 7)
- The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (2003, ★ 6.1)
- The Calligrapher (1991, ★ 6.4)
- Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (2013, ★ 6.1)
- Eurydice: She, So Beloved (2007, ★ 5.6)
- Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2025, ★ 6)