
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.

Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

VadeMecum

Maska

Tales of the Brothers Quay

The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

The Comb

Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You

Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

Street of Crocodiles

Anamorphosis

Alice in Not So Wonderland

The Calligrapher

Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)

In Absentia

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

Stille Nacht I: Dramolet

This Unnameable Little Broom

Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection

Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?

The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film

Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse

Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003

11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

The Sandman

Wonderwood: Comme des garçons

The Doll's Breath

The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993

Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods

Stille Nacht V: Dog Door

Nocturna Artificialia

Eurydice: She, So Beloved

Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy

The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode

The Summit

Songs for Dead Children

Rain Dance

Ex Voto

Ghosts and Whispers

Kinoteka Ident