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Anamorphosis
1993 • Animation • History • Documentary
The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This artistic technique, often used in t…
Matched on: Quay
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
2005 • Music • Drama • Romance
Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Street of Crocodiles
1986 • Animation • Fantasy
A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.
Why matched: genres Animation, Fantasy
This Unnameable Little Broom
1985 • Mystery • Animation • Horror
Stop-motion animated short film in which a puppet on a trike captures a puppet bird-man.
Why matched: genres Mystery, Animation
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
1995 • Drama
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: abs…
Why matched: genres Drama
In Absentia
2000 • Animation
A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on her window. She sharpens pencils…
Why matched: genres Animation
The Comb
1991 • Animation • Fantasy
A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.
Why matched: genres Animation, Fantasy
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
1984 • Animation
In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff and toys from the child's h…
Why matched: genres Animation
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
1988 • Mystery • Animation • Horror
A magnet moves on a floor. A moth beats against a window. A doll child watches the magnet; threads of metal filings gather around the magnet.
Why matched: genres Mystery, Animation
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
1988 • Animation
Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.
Why matched: genres Animation