Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass screened at the Offscreen Film Festival, 16 Mar 2025, together with Peter Strickland’s short film Cobbler’s Lot (2018) Twin brothers Stephen and Timothy Quay first made their name for a series of highly mannered hand animated short films, including Street of Crocodiles (1986) which was adapted from a…
Quay Brothers: The Short Films, 1979-2003 first published by Film4 in 2006 to coincide with the release of BFI’s two-disc DVD collection Summary: In these thirteen artfully animated shorts by the Quay Brothers, puppets break free of their strings, museum exhibits run riot, and the inmates take over the asylum. Review: When the BFI was in the…
First published by EyeForFilm It opens with a riddle that has no solution – or, more accurately, whose solution is ‘nothing’. It features an alternative title (This Dream People Call Human Life) that baldly advertises its status as allegory. It ends with a visual paradox that breaks down the distinction between viewer and viewed, inside…
The Piano Tuner of EarthQuakes first published by EyeforFilm Ten years after their feature debut with Institute Benjamenta (1995), the brothers Quay have re-emerged from the workshop with The Piano Tuner Of EarthQuakes and although the shadowy monochrome of their first film has given way to murky, bleached-out colours, the twins have lost none of…