Director

Timothy Quay

June 17, 1947 · Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA

Timothy Quay was born in 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA, as the identical twin of Stephen Quay. He studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and later at the Royal College of Art in London, where he began working with his brother in experimental animation. Timothy has directed and co-directed numerous 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 distinguished by surreal, detailed atmospheres, frozen worlds, and objects full of history, with a constant collaboration alongside Stephen throughout his career.

Often works with

Stephen Quay
2 titles together
The Falls, The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
César Saratxu
2 titles together
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
W
Witold Schejbal
2 titles together
The Comb, Anamorphosis

Full filmography · 49

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Director
2025
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz: Bruno Schulz
Director
2022
Ghosts and Whispers
Director
2022
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
Director
2021
VadeMecum
Director
2021
The Doll's Breath
Director
2019
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
cast
2015
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Writer and Director
2013
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Director
2011
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
Director
2010
Maska
Director and Writer
2010
Kinoteka Ident
Director
2009