Directed credits
38
Prolific
Very extensive directing filmography.
Director
Stephen Quay
Directing
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Directed movies: 38Directed series: 0All crew credits: 44
TMDB ID: 124237
IMDb ID: nm0703028
Known for: Directing
Born: June 17, 1947
Age: 78
Place of birth: Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1979 - 2025
Years active: 47
Average TMDB rating: 6.48
Wikidata: Q18045614
Frequent jobs
Director (38)Animation (3)Sound Designer (1)Thanks (1)Writer (1)
Biography
Stephen Quay was born in 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied illustration at the Philadelphia College of Art and later continued his education at the Royal College of Art in London, where he met his twin brother Timothy and began collaborating in animation. Together, they founded Atelier Koninck and produced their first experimental short films in the late 1970s. Throughout his career, Stephen has directed and co-directed 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 characterized by dreamlike, detailed, and symbolic worlds, often using dolls and carefully crafted objects to create surreal and unsettling atmospheres.
Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Stephen Quay.
6.0
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Director
2025 Movie
6.0
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
Director
2021 Movie
7.0
VadeMecum
Director
2021 Movie
6.0
The Doll's Breath
Director
2019 Movie
6.4
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Director
2011 Movie
6.0
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
Director
2010 Movie
7.0
Maska
Director
2010 Movie
Kinoteka Ident
Director
2009 Movie
5.6
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
Director
2007 Movie
9.0
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
Director
2007 Movie
6.3
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Director
2005 Movie
6.0
Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003
Director
2004 Movie
6.1
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
Director
2003 Movie
5.3
Songs for Dead Children
Director
2003 Movie
6.0
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
Director
2001 Movie
5.8
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
Director
2001 Movie
6.0
The Sandman
Director
2000 Movie
6.3
In Absentia
Director
2000 Movie
6.0
The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993
Director
2000 Movie
7.7
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Director
1995 Movie
5.3
The Summit
Director
1995 Movie
6.7
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
Director
1993 Movie
5.9
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Director
1993 Movie
6.5
Anamorphosis
Director
1993 Movie
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Stephen Quay.
5.0
Inventorium of Traces
Sound Designer
2009 Movie
6.1
Quay
Thanks
2015 Movie
6.0
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Director
2025 Movie
7.7
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Director
1995 Movie
7.2
The Falls
as Ipson Fallari
1982 Movie
6.0
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
Director
1992 Movie
6.3
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Director
2005 Movie
6.3
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
Director
1988 Movie
6.5
Anamorphosis
Director
1993 Movie
6.5
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Director
1988 Movie
6.1
This Unnameable Little Broom
Director
1985 Movie
6.0
The Doll's Breath
Director
2019 Movie
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Stephen Quay.
Ghosts and Whispers
Animation
2022 Movie
6.1
Quay
Thanks
2015 Movie
6.1
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Animation
2013 Movie
5.0
Inventorium of Traces
Sound Designer
2009 Movie
5.3
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Writer
2007 Movie
5.5
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
Animation
1981 Movie
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Stephen Quay.
5.0
The Music of Zdeněk Liška
as Self
2017 Movie
6.0
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015 Movie
6.1
Quay
as Self
2015 Movie
Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers
as Self
2011 Movie
Inside The Institute
2010 Movie
The Art of Time
2009 Movie
4.0
The Bug Trainer
as Self - stop-motion animator
2009 Movie
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
2006 Movie
6.1
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
as Librarian
2003 Movie
7.2
The Falls
as Ipson Fallari
1982 Movie