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Quay brothers : the short films, 1979-2003 / [Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay ; producer of this set, Michael Brooke].
LIBRA DVD/PAL 005 873 disc 1-2 + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Surrealism in motion pictures.
- Expressionism in motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Animated films.
- Experimental films.
- Short films.
- Puppet films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (314 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (21 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
- Other Title:
- Title on container: Brothers Quay the short films 1979-2003
- Place of Publication:
- London : British Film Institute, [2003?]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, PAL.
- digital
- optical
- PAL
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- The Brothers Quay create puppet animation, where decaying dolls, primitive machinery, and other found objects interact in an expressionist world of ultra-reality.
- Contents:
- Disc 1: Films. The cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984, 14 min.)
- This unnameable little broom (1985, 11 min.)
- Street of crocodiles (1986, 21 min.)
- Rehearsals for extinct anatomies (1987, 14 min.)
- Stille Nacht I : dramolet (1988, 2 min.)
- The comb (1990, 17 min.)
- Anamorphosis (1991, 14 min.)
- Stille Nacht II: Are we still married? (1992, 3 min.)
- Stille Nacht III : Tales from Vienna Woods (1992, 4 min.)
- Stille Nacht IV: Can't go wrong without you (1993, 4 min.)
- In absentia (2000, 19 min.)
- The phantom museum (2003, 12 min.). Disc 2: Footnotes. BFI distribution ident (1991, 20 sec.)
- Introduction by the Quay Brothers (2006, 20 min.)
- Nocturna artificialia (1979, 20 min.)
- The calligrapher (1991, 1 min.)
- The summit (1995, 12 min.)
- The falls (1980, 5 min. excerpt)
- Archive interview (2000, 28 min.)
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of 18 short films produced between 1979 and 2003.
- Varying aspect ratios follow those of the original films.
- OCLC:
- 86076349
- Publisher Number:
- 5035673006535
- BFIVD653 British Film Institute
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