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Quay Brothers & Exhibitions
The Quay Brothers' visionary and poetic cinema has established them as among the most respected and imitated of film-makers. Their highly stylised visual worlds are enigmatic and other-worldly, a landscape of bizarre fairy-tales and strange dreams. Caught between myth and nightmare, they take us to forgotten rooms and lost streets where we find oddly constructed puppets, broken doll parts and peculiar machines. Their work is informed by the culture of Eastern and Central Europe, especially by the expressionist and surrealist characteristics found in the work of Polish author Bruno Schulz whom the Quays describe as, "the secret catalyst of (all) our work." Stephen and Timothy Quay were born in Philadelphia where they studied illustration and graphics. While at the Royal College of Art in London in the l970s, they began to make stop-motion animated films filtering arcane visual, literary, musical, cinematic and philosophical influences through their own distinctive sensibility. Since then they have produced short films, features, advertisements and idents for television, music videos and collaborated with opera, theatre and ballet companies. A comprehensive survey of the Quay Brothers' work including a bibliography and filmography can be found at www.screenonline.org.uk
Inventorium. The Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip Reading Puppets
University of Brighton Gallery 10:00AM
This exhibition brings together two installations of work by the brothers; 'Dormitorium' and 'Eurydice - She, So Beloved..' DORMITORIUM: Film Décors of the Quay Brothers This...continue
Quay Brothers: A Programme of Short Films
Duke of York's Picturehouse 12:00PM
Including: Are We Still Married, Tales from Vienna Wood, Can't go on without you + In Absentia. And more...
Cabinets of Curiosity (PG) Plus QUAYS In Conversation
Duke of York's Picturehouse 6:30PM
CABINETS OF CURIOUSITY – THE QUAY BROTHERS ON SCREEN + 'in conversation'. To complement the exhibition INVENTORIUM a rare opportunity to see a Quay Brothers selection on the...continue
Quay Brothers: Dance Shorts
Sallis Benney Theatre 12:00PM
The Quays’ films have always been shaped by the dynamic inter-relationship between music and the choreography of objects. “We rely on music to propose certain things we would...continue
Polish Film Posters
University of Brighton Gallery 10:00AM
To complement the Quay Brothers' exhibition INVENTORIUM, CINECITY presents a selection of film posters from the Quays' own personal collection complemented by posters from the...continue
The Magic World of Starewicz
Sallis Benney Theatre 3:30PM
Town and Country Rat (1932) 13min The Old Lion (1932) 10min The Mascot (1933) 20min Fern Flower (1949) 25min Complementing the Quays is a programme by the pioneer of stop-motion...continue
Institute Benjamenta (PG)
Duke of York's Picturehouse 11:30PM
Starring: Mark Rylance, Alice Krige, Gottfried John, Daniel Smith. GB 1995. 104 mins. The Quay Brothers' assured feature debut is an extraordinary live action 'fairytale' inspired...continue
