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    In Absentia 2000 POSTER

    In Absentia

    2000

    English

    7.0

    ♡ 11

    89%

    89%

    Action

    Animation

    stop motion

    Stephen Quay Stephen Quay Director Marlene Kaminsky Marlene Kaminsky as Woman
    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 and writes on a page in a copy book. The pencil point often breaks under her fingers' force. She places broken points outside the window on the sill. A satanic figure is somewhere nearby, animated but of straw or clay, not flesh. She finishes her writing, tears the paper from the pad, folds it, places it in an envelope, and slips it through a slot. Is she writing to her husband? "Sweetheart, come."
    The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer 1982 POSTER

    The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer

    1982

    English

    7.1

    ♡ 5

    Animation

    Documentary

    Fantasy

    stop motion

    Stephen Quay Stephen Quay Director
    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 head, leaving him without the top of his head for most of the film. The professor then teaches the lad about illusions and perspectives, the pursuit of an object through exploring a bank of drawers, divining an object, and the migration of forms. The child then brings out a box with a tarantula in it: the professor puts his "hands" into the box and describes what he feels. The boy receives a final lesson about animation and film making; then the professor gives him a brain and his own open-book hat.
    Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting 2011 POSTER

    Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting

    2011

    English

    7.1

    ♡ 2

    Action

    Documentary

    History

    Music

    Stephen Quay Stephen Quay Director Marie Fury Marie Fury as Helen Eastlack Derek Jacobi Derek Jacobi as Narrator
    A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Mutter Museum housed there. This short film represents the first to be made by the internationally recognized Quay Brothers in the United States. While not a stop-motion animation film, a form for which the Quays are best known, the entire film is vibrantly constructed and 'animated'. Musical score by composer Tim Nelson and voice-over provided by Derek Jacobi.
    Street of Crocodiles 1986 POSTER

    Street of Crocodiles

    1986

    English

    7.6

    ♡ 9

    92%

    92%

    Animation

    makeover

    map

    meat

    reflection

    stop motion

    surrealism

    Stephen Quay Stephen Quay Director Feliks Stawinski Feliks Stawinski as Caretaker
    A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.
    Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life 1995 POSTER

    Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life

    1995

    English

    7.0

    ♡ 4

    correctional institution

    Drama

    institution

    school life

    servant

    servant heiress relationship

    surrealism

    Stephen Quay Stephen Quay Director Jonathan Stone Jonathan Stone as Hebling Mark Rylance Mark Rylance as Jakob Peter Lovstrom Peter Lovstrom as Jorgenson Alice Krige Alice Krige as Lisa Benjamenta
    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: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?
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