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To coincide with the theatrical release of THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES, Zeitgeist Films presents a thirteen-film retrospective of shorts by famed twin animators the Quay Brothers. Two of the world’s most original filmmakers, identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay have been making their unique blend of puppetry and stop-motion animation for nearly 30 years and have spawned an enormous cult following.
The Quays display a passion for detail, a breathtaking command of color and texture, and an uncanny use of focus and camera movement that make their films unique and instantly recognizable. Best known for their classic 1986 film STREET OF CROCODILES, which filmmaker Terry Gilliam recently selected as one of the ten best animated films of all time, they are masters of miniaturization and on their tiny sets have created an unforgettable world, suggestive of a landscape of long-repressed childhood dreams. Zeitgeist is proud to present most of these extraordinary films in brand-new theatrical prints (freshly struck by the British Film Institute).
| Catalog Number: MC-661 |
Type: Shorts Compilation |
Genre: Animation |
| Copyright: 2006 |
Length: 317 Minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 0 (All) |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: |
UPC: 795975108638 |
| Label: Zeitgeist Films |
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Films In Compilation
Nocturna Artificialia directed by
The Quay Brothers
USA,
Art / Artist,
1979,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:21:00
A dreamer is seduced by the mystery of the city at night. He leaves his room and goes into the street, where a tram-car carries him away. “As with much of their later work, it’s impossible to provide ...
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The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer directed by
The Quay Brothers
USA,
Art / Artist,
1984,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:14:00
The film is structured as a series of little lessons in perception, taught by a puppet simulacrum of Svankmajer, whose head is an opened book, to a doll whose head the master empties of dross and ...
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This Unnameable Little Broom or The Epic of Gilgamesh directed by
The Quay Brothers
USA,
Art / Artist,
1985,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:11:00
This was originally conceived as a pilot for a series, which never materialized due to lack of funding. Alternative title: Little Songs of the Chief Officer of Hunar Louse (Being a Largely Disguised ...
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Street of Crocodiles
directed by
The Quay Brothers
USA,
Art / Artist,
1986,
B&W/Color,
Magnetic Monaural,
00:21:00
Adapted from a short story by Polish writer Bruno Schulz, the Quays’ first film in 35mm, and their first masterpiece, delves deep into a nightmarish netherworld. A museum keeper spits into the ...
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Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies directed by
The Quay Brothers
USA,
Art / Artist,
1987,
B&W,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:14:00
In the fragile immobility of a room a couple wait, as twilight advances, alternately oblivious to and made anxious by presentiments of some brutal destruction being remorselessly rehearsed outside ...
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The Comb (From the Museums of Sleep) directed by
The Quay Brothers
USA,
Art / Artist,
1990,
B&W/Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:18:00
The Comb opens in the shadowy bedroom of a sleeping beauty and seems to enter her mind and burrow into her dreams. Based on a fragment of text by the Austrian writer Robert Walser, The Comb is
an ...
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De Artificiali Perspectiva or Anamorphosis directed by
The Quay Brothers
USA,
Art / Artist,
1991,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:15:00
The Quays’ interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This artistic technique, often used in the 16th- and 17th ...
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Stille Nacht I - Dramolet directed by
The Quay Brothers
USA,
Art / Artist,
1988,
B&W,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:01:00
A dazzling fugue of iron filings that was made as an Art Break for ...
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Stille Nacht II - Are We Still Married? directed by
The Quay Brothers
USA,
Art / Artist,
1992,
B&W,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:30
A three-minute animated choreography with an ethereal pop soundtrack by the remarkable band called “His Name Is Alive”. With a typically eccentric cast of a ragged doll, a white rabbit and a manic ...
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Stille Nacht III - Tales From Vienna Woods directed by
The Quay Brothers
USA,
Art / Artist,
1993,
B&W,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:30
The third in the Stille Nacht cycle, Tales From Vienna Woods was also made with the intention of exploring imagery that they planned to develop further in their first feature Institute Benjamenta, ...
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Stille Nacht IV - Can't Go Wrong Without You directed by
The Quay Brothers
USA,
Art / Artist,
1994,
B&W,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:30
Following their collaboration the previous year with Are We Still
Married?, the Quays reunited with His Name Is Alive to create the video for their 1993 single “Can’t Go Wrong Without You.” Very ...
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In Absentia directed by
The Quay Brothers
USA,
Art / Artist,
2000,
B&W/Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:20:00
The first new film by the Quay Brothers in the five years since Institute Benjamenta, In Absentia is a collaboration with the celebrated avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who composed and ...
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The Phantom Museum directed by
The Quay Brothers
USA,
Art / Artist,
2003,
B&W/Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:12:00
Random forays into one of the world’s most extraordinary museum collections: Sir Henry Wellcome’s unique trove of medical curiosities. With their customary dexterity and affinity for the arcane, the ...
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