Published by Ludion. Edited by Edwin Carels, Tommy Simoens. Text by by Edwin Carels.
In the mid-1970s the influential stop-motion animators Stephan and Timothy Quay (born 1947) embarked on a series of dark graphite drawings, conceived as imaginary film posters. They kept their first autonomous art project hidden for decades, allowing only a few glimpses to transpire in some of their animation classics such as Nuctura Artificialia, Street of Crocodiles and their live-project Witlold Lutoslawski—Paraphrase on: The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other. In hindsight, the Black Drawings can be considered as a blueprint for their future work. This book offers a first in-depth exploration of this important graphic series that reveals many of the themes and techniques that would come to life in their celebrated animation films.
PUBLISHER Ludion
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 220 pgs / 50 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 3/27/2018 Active
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2018 p. 122
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9789491819803TRADE List Price: $39.95 CDN $53.95
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Published by nai010 publishers. Edited by Jaap Guldemond, Marente Bloemheuvel. Text by Suzanne Buchan.
American-born, UK-based identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay (born 1947), better known as the Quay Brothers, are internationally celebrated for their incredibly inventive, otherworldly films that deploy objects, puppets and people in gloomy fantasies and haunted visions, creating a fetishized erotics of "stuff" in which dead matter mocks human form. Over the course of their careers, they have worked across disciplines to develop an aesthetic that manages to inspire, confound and often disturb their viewers. The Quays are also well known for the diverse cultural influences referenced throughout their films and designs, from Polish modernist poster design to antiquarians such as Athanasius Kircher, authors such as Robert Walser, Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz, and artists such as Adolf Wölfli. Published for an exhibition at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, this Quay sourcebook presents their animated films, set designs (or "Dormitoriums," as the brothers have named them) and works on paper against the vast constellation of their influences--from Wunderkammer artifacts and anatomical models to Eastern European posters, other animation films, drawings from the famous Prinzhorn Collection, scores by Karlheinz Stockhausen and other inspirational sources.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Edited by Ron Magliozzi. Text by Edwin Carels, the Quay Brothers.
For more than 30 years, internationally renowned moving image artists and designers the Quay Brothers have been in the avant-garde of stop-motion puppet animation. Creating work in the tradition of Czech Surrealists Jan Svankmajer and Jiri Trnka, Russian animator Yuri Norstein and Polish animator Walerian Borowczyk, the twin brothers practice a design aesthetic influenced by the graphic surrealism of Polish poster artists of the 1950s and 1960s such as Jan Lenica, Roman Cieslewicz, Franciszek Starowieyski and Henryk Tomaszewski. Since 1971, they have produced more than 45 moving images, including features, music videos, dance films and documentaries, and have designed sets and projections for opera, drama and concert performances. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art--the first presentation of the Quay Brothers’ work in all their fields of creative activity--this publication presents their films as well as previously unseen moving image works and graphic design, drawings, typography and notebooks for films.
The Quay Brothers were born near Philadelphia and have worked from their London studio, Atelier Koninck, since the late 1970s. Their works include The Street of Crocodiles (1986), the Stille Nacht series (1988–2008), Institute Benjamenta (1995) and In Absentia (2000). They have also designed sets and projections for opera, drama, and concert performances such as Ionesco’s The Chairs (Tony-nominated design, 1997) and recent site-specific pieces based on the work of Bartók and Kafka.
Best known for their classic 1986 film Street of Crocodiles--which Terry Gilliam selected as one of the ten best animated films of all time--the Quay Brothers are masters of miniaturization, and with their tiny sets have created unforgettable worlds. This two-disc set contains 13 of their classic short films in restored and remastered editions (personally supervised by the Quays), plus audio commentaries, interviews, alternative versions, unrealized pilot projects and more. Phantom Museums also features a gorgeously illustrated booklet, including a “Quay Dictionary” and an essay by Michael Atkinson.
PUBLISHER Zeitgeist Films
BOOK FORMAT DVD (NTSC), 5 x 7 in.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 7/31/2012 Active
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2012 p. 54
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781935202424TRADE List Price: $34.99 CDN $45.95
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The Quay Brothers are among the most acclaimed and beloved animator-filmmakers in the world, influencing visionary directors like Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, Julie Taymor and Tarsem. Their first feature, Institute Benjamenta, presented here in a gorgeous new director-approved transfer, is an exquisitely realized anti-fairytale as unique and astonishing as their celebrated animations. Jakob (Mark Rylance) enrolls at the titular Institute--a dilapidated, moribund boarding school for the training of servants--and becomes embroiled in the strangely hypnotic world of the enigmatic siblings at its helm. Inspired by the writings of Swiss author Robert Walser, Institute Benjamenta also boasts a stellar arthouse cast, including Tony Award-winner Mark Rylance, Star Trek Borg Queen Alice Krige and Fassbinder regular Gottfried John.
PUBLISHER Zeitgeist Films
BOOK FORMAT DVD (NTSC), 5 x 7 in.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 10/31/2012 Out of stock indefinitely
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2013 p. 126
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781938922046TRADE List Price: $29.99 CDN $40.00
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is the breathtakingly beautiful second feature from the Quay Brothers. On the eve of her wedding, the beautiful opera singer Malvina is mysteriously killed and abducted by a malevolent Dr. Droz. Felisberto, an innocent piano tuner, is summoned to Droz’s secluded villa to service his strange musical automatons. Little by little, Felisberto learns of the doctor’s plans to stage a “diabolical opera” and of Malvina’s fate. He secretly conspires to rescue her, only to become trapped himself in the web of Droz’s perverse universe. Starring Amira Casar, Assumpta Serna, Cesar Sarachu and Gottfried John.
PUBLISHER Zeitgeist Films
BOOK FORMAT DVD (NTSC), 5 x 7 in.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 10/31/2012 Out of stock indefinitely
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2013 p. 126
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781938922039TRADE List Price: $29.99 CDN $40.00
The Quay Brothers' Universum
Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
Institute Benjamenta: Or This Dream People Call Human Life
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes