Timothy Quay
Directing · Director · Cinematography · Writer
Born Jun 17, 1947 · Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
Active 1979–present · Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship
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…
Filmography
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2025) — Director · Screenplay · Animation · Editor · SoundInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995) — Director · WriterStreet of Crocodiles (1986) — Director · Editor · Writer · Production Design · AnimationThe Falls (1982) — Pulat FallariThe Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer (1984) — Director · Director of PhotographyThe Comb (1991) — Director · Writer · Animation · Art Direction · Camera Operator · EditorStille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988) — DirectorThe Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005) — Director · Writer · Production DesignIn Absentia (2000) — Director · AnimationRehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988) — Director · Cinematography · Animation · DecoratorAnamorphosis (1993) — Director · Animation · Art Direction · Camera Operator · Editor · DecoratorStille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You (1993) — Director · Camera Operator · AnimationStille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? (1992) — Director · Animation · Camera OperatorThis Unnameable Little Broom (1985) — Director · Writer · Director of PhotographyPhantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers (2007) — DirectorA Fratricide (1981) — Director · AnimationMaska (2010) — Director · WriterNocturna Artificialia (1979) — Director · CinematographyStille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods (1993) — Director · Animation · Camera OperatorTales of the Brothers Quay (1987) — DirectorThe Calligrapher (1991) — Director · AnimationThe Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (2003) — DirectorThrough the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) (2011) — Director · Sound · Editor · AnimationUnmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (2013) — Animation · Writer · Director