The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993
by Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Keith Griffiths
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Actor: Feliks Stawinski, Joy Constaninides, Witold ScheybalDirector: Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Cinematographer: Stephen Quay
Editor: Stephen Quay
Writer: Stephen Quay
Cinematographer: Timothy Collinson
Cinematographer: Timothy Quay
Editor: Timothy Quay
Writer: Timothy Quay
Editor: Keith Griffiths
Producer: Keith Griffiths
Writer: Keith Griffiths
Producer: G. Gianca
Producer: S. Williams
Writer: Bruno Schulz
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-08-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kino Video
Movie Reviews of The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993
Movie Review: great animation, bad dvd
Summary: 1 Stars
I love the quays but this dvd is terribly designed. It has shoddy menus and is difficult to navigate. I think the other dvd they have (Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers) might be better and I think the animations are the same.
Summary of The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993
The surreal visions of the Brothers Quay, identical-twin animators from Minnesota who have since made London their home, are an offbeat mix of clockwork mechanics, wire, thread, and 19th-century curios, all set to life in a series of beautiful but elusive set pieces. Directed in a highly stylized manner, with a shallow plane of focus that intentionally keeps certain objects blurred and a camera that moves with conspicuous mechanical precision, their works have a dreamlike quality about them. This is directly alluded to in the subtitle of one of their most handsome films, "The Comb (From the Museum of Sleep)," where scenes of a latticework of ladders shooting through an angular construction are intercut with shots of a sleeping woman. "Street of Crocodiles," their most famous short work, references turn-of-the-century cinema as a man peers through a Kinetoscope to watch the nightmare-tinged fantasy of a figure overwhelmed by mysterious forces on the deserted streets of a city after dark. These are the longest and most accomplished short films in The Brothers Quay Collection, a compendium of ten works from 1984 to 1993, but the tape contains other spellbinding works, from the early "The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer," a tribute to the great Czech animator and the Quay's spiritual godfather, to the inventive art history documentary "De Artificiali Perspectiva, or Anamorphosis," to the four short works in the "Stille Nacht" series. These films, along with "The Epic of Gilgamesh" and "Rehearsals For Extinct Anatomies," showcase a vision of quivering objects and surreal narratives in a shadowy, self-contained dream world. --Sean AxmakerAnimation DVD Video
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