Quay Brothers. The Concept of Film and Animation. 2006

Title: Quay Brothers. The Concept of Film and Animation. 2006

Added: Mar 14, 2007

Author: egsvideo

Duration: 1:52

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http://www.egs.edu/ The Quay Brothers talk about their work, film and animation process; describing their reliance on computer graphics and their relationship to objects they can touch and feel. Quay Brothers, Open video lecture for students and faculty of European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies Program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe. Stephen and Timothy Quay (born 17 June 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States), are American identical twin brothers better known as the Brothers Quay or Quay Brothers. They are influential stop-motion animators.,Careers,They reside and work in England where they moved in the late 1960s (after studying illustration in Philadelphia) to study at the Royal College of Art[1] There, they made their first short films, which no longer exist after the only print was irreparably damaged. They spent some time in the Netherlands in the 1970s and then returned to England where they teamed up with another Royal College student, Keith Griffiths, who produced all of their films. The trio formed Koninck Studios in 1980, which is currently based in Southwark, south London.,,The Quays' works (1979-present) show a wide range of often esoteric influences, starting with the Polish animators Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica and continuing with the writers Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Robert Walser and Michel de Ghelderode, puppeteers Wladyslaw Starewicz and Richard Teschner and composers Leoš Janáček, Zdeněk Liška and Leszek Jankowski, the last of whom has created many original scores for their work. Czech animator Jan Švankmajer, for whom they named one of their films (The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer), is also frequently cited as a major influence, but they actually discovered his work relatively late, in 1983, by which time their characteristic style and preoccupations had been fully formed.,,Most of their films feature dolls, often partially disassembled, in a dark, moody atmosphere. Perhaps their best known work is Street of Crocodiles, based on the short story of the same name by the Polish author and artist Bruno Schulz. This short film was selected by director and animator Terry Gilliam as one of the ten best animated films of all time, and critic Jonathan Romney included it on his list of the ten best films in any medium (for Sight and Sound's 2002 critics' poll). They have made two feature-length live action films: Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life and The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes. They also directed an animated sequence in the film Frida.Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995), The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2006), Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Short Films, Nocturna Artificialia (1979), Punch And Judy (Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy) (1980), Ein Brudermord (1981), The Eternal Day Of Michel de Ghelderode (1981), Stravinsky - The Paris Years (1983), Leoš Janáček: Intimate Excursions (1983), The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer (1984), The Epic of Gilgamesh, or This Unnameable Little Broom (1985) aka Little Songs of the Chief Officer of Hunar Louse, Street of Crocodiles (1986), Stille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988), Rehearsals For Extinct Anatomies (1988), Ex-Voto/The Pond (1989), The Comb (From The Museums Of Sleep) (1990), De Artificiali Perspectiva, or Anamorphosis (1991), The Calligrapher (1991) - an ident commissioned for the BBC2 television channel, but never broadcast, Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? (1991), Long Way Down (Look What The Cat Drug In) (1992), Stille Nacht III: Tales From Vienna Woods (1992), Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You (1993), The Summit (1995), In Absentia (2000), The Sandman (2000), Duet (2000), The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (2003)

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