DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

The Brothers Quay collection / Kino International.

New York, NY : Kino International Corp., ©2000.

1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

As animators, puppeteers, designers, writers, or directors, Philadelphia natives and identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay are renowned for artisanal methods and unusual sources of inspiration. Described as 'Kafkaesque' or 'post-apocalyptically Bruegelian' their films are inspired by twentieth-century European visual and literary culture, especially the surrealist and expressionist traditions. Influences include filmmaker Jan Svankmajer; writers Robert Walser, Franz Kafka, Lewis Carroll, and Bruno Schulz; artists Ernst, Bacon, Arcimboldo, Fragonard, Bosch, and Escher. Short on conventional narrative but long on enigmatic visuals, themes within the Quays' work include dreams, melancholy, empty or repetitive gestures, and madness--all of which add textures and layers to the abstraction of the images and narratives.

Short films.

Animated films.

Experimental films.

Surrealism in motion pictures.

Expressionism in motion pictures.

Quay, Stephen, 1947-

Quay, Timothy, 1947-

Griffiths, Keith, 1947-

Schulz, Bruno, 1892-1942.

Walser, Robert, 1878-1956.

Cardinal, Roger.

Schejbal, Witold.

Constantinides, J.

Koninck (Firm)

British Film Institute.

Channel Four (Great Britain)

MTV Networks.

Program for Art on Film (New York, N.Y.)

His Name Is Alive (Musical group)

4AD (Firm)

Kino International Corporation.

Special features: Nocturna Artificialia, 1979, (21 min.); Interview with the Brothers Quay (4 min.); Institute Benjamenta theatrical trailer (2 min.); Excerpts from "The Night Countries of the Brothers Quay" by Michael Atkinson, an article that originally appeared in Film Comment.

Camera, J. Collinson ; music, Zdeněk Liška, R. Walter, Leszek Jankowski.

Narration, Witold Schejbal ; with J. Constantinides.

Originally released as short films between 1984 and 1993.

DVD.

The cabinet of Jan Švankmajer : Prague's alchemist of film / a film by Atelier Koninck, Keith Griffiths, Brothers Quay Little songs of the chief officer of Hunar Louse : or this unnameable little broom being a largely disguised reduction of the epic of Gilgamesh / a film by Koninck ; animation mise en scène, Brothers Quay ; montage production, K. Griffiths Bruno Schulz's Street of crocodiles = Ulǐća krokodyli / animation, mise-en-scène, puppets, camera, decors, montage, Brothers Quay ; produced by Keith M. Griffiths por Koninck ; a British Film Institute production Rehearsals for extinct anatomies / animation, decors, camera, puppets, mise-en-scène, montage, Brothers Quay ; producer, Keith Griffiths ; a film by Koninck for Channel Four Television Stille nacht : Dramolet / scenario, animation, mise-en-scène, Brothers Quay ; a Koninck film produced by Keith Griffiths ; commissioned by MTV Networks The comb [from the Museums of Sleep] : Fairytale dramolet / to scenes and texts of Robert Walser ; producer, K. Griffiths ; animation, decors, puppets, camera, montage, Brothers Quay ; a Koninck Studios production De artificiali perspectiva or anamorphosis / the Program for Art on Film presents a film by the Brothers Quay & Roger Cardinal ; animation, decors, puppets, camera, mise-en-scène, montage, Brothers Quay ; producer, Keith Griffiths ; Koninck Studios Limited Are we still married? [music] by His Name is Alive / animation, decor, camera, mise-en-scène, the Brothers Quay ; executive producer, Keith Griffiths ; Studios Atelier Koninck for 4AD Tales from Vienna woods : Stille Nacht III / scenario, decors, animation, mise-en-scène, camera, Quays ; Atelier Koninck QBFZ Stille Nacht IV : Can't go wrong without you [music] by His Name is Alive / animation, decor, camera, mise-en-scène, Quay Brothers ; an Atelier Koninck QBFZ film for 4AD

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