Those prone to mental disturbances and nightmares, or possess a fear of dolls, dirt or general unpleasantries would do well to avoid the Brothers Quay and the bulk of their unconscious unfurling oeuvre, but everyone else is due a hearty recommendation. Take it from Christopher Nolan, who recently wrapped a documentary, simply titled Quay, on the mysterious identical twin directors and curated a selection of 35mm prints of their work to hit the road on a new theatrical tour. Like so many others, Nolan caught a stray Quay film on British cable by accident, and unable to catch the names of its creators through the swirl of credits in beautifully stylized calligraphy, was haunted by its alluring, impenetrable imagery.
From their minutely detailed and grittily textured beginnings in the early ’80s with films like The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer, in which a professor literally empties the head of his student,...
From their minutely detailed and grittily textured beginnings in the early ’80s with films like The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer, in which a professor literally empties the head of his student,...
- 12/15/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
The Quay Brothers, or The Brothers Quay as they were introduced to me, have been working in stop-motion for over 3 decades yet most horror fans do not know of them. This could mainly be because their work is in the short film format which is hard to gain a audience outside of film festival circuits. Some light was brought onto them when they made the cover for the Canadian horror magazine, Rue Morgue, back in November of 2005 – along with other stop-motion artists like Robert Morgan (The Separation from ABCs of Death 2) and Jan Svankmajer. Earlier this year, director Christopher Nolan took on the project of compiling some of the shorts from The Quay Brothers over their 30 years of filmmaking in addition to Nolan’s short documentary on the brothers. If you weren’t lucky enough to see this collection, which was only exhibited via 35mm, the good news is that...
- 10/27/2015
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
The Brothers Quay, an identical-twin duo of groundbreaking and surrealist stop-motion animators, recently sat down for a seven-part lecture on the roots of filmmaking at The European Graduate School, or Egs, which provides a nontraditional graduate school experience for students interested in media studies.
Other guest lecturers at the Swiss-based university have included the likes of David Lynch and Catherine Breillat.
Prolific and often-copied, the Brothers Quay have helped revolutionize animated filmmaking.
Their 21-minute stop animation film Street of Crocodiles was a Palme D’Or nominated film at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
Anyone familiar with their films can easily recognize their dark, bizarre, and dreamlike style. “We’ve always been drawn to the shadow region,” explains one of the Quay during part-two of the lecture.
Anyone not familiar can watch Stille Nacht I: Dramolet on YouTube, embedded here:
A Brothers Quay quote from the Egs website helps us understand...
Other guest lecturers at the Swiss-based university have included the likes of David Lynch and Catherine Breillat.
Prolific and often-copied, the Brothers Quay have helped revolutionize animated filmmaking.
Their 21-minute stop animation film Street of Crocodiles was a Palme D’Or nominated film at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
Anyone familiar with their films can easily recognize their dark, bizarre, and dreamlike style. “We’ve always been drawn to the shadow region,” explains one of the Quay during part-two of the lecture.
Anyone not familiar can watch Stille Nacht I: Dramolet on YouTube, embedded here:
A Brothers Quay quote from the Egs website helps us understand...
- 2/4/2010
- by Will Melton
- FusedFilm
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