Street of Crocodiles The Quays' best-known (and highest budgeted) short takes place in nightmarish netherworld populated by strange and sinister puppets. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1986 21 mins Brothers Quay Institute Benjamenta Mark Rylance stars in the debut feature film from the Brothers Quay. A student at a peculiar school for servants gradually uncovers its secrets and, by extension, those of life itself. Drama 1995 105 mins Brothers Quay The Phantom Museum The Quay Brothers' partly animated exploration of the Wellcome Trust's medical collections. 2003 12 mins Brothers Quay The Comb A woman dreams of a fairytale landscape populated by ladders and sinister puppets. Animation & Artists Moving Image Fairy tale 1990 18 mins Brothers Quay In Absentia The Brothers Quay's visualisation of a piece by Karlheinz Stockhausen. A woman alone in a room repeatedly writes a letter with tiny broken off pieces of pencil lead. Outside her window, vistas of ever-changing light register her every emotion. Animation & Artists Moving Image 2000 20 mins Brothers Quay Nocturna Artificialia The debut film from the Brothers Quay follows a dreamer who's seduced by the mystery of the city at night. He leaves his room and goes into the street, where a tram-car carries him away. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1979 21 mins Brothers Quay This Unnameable Little Broom The Brothers Quay take on the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh, presenting the character as a childlike figure who sets a series of vicious traps to catch Enkidu, the guileless forest creature. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1985 11 mins Brothers Quay The Cabinet of Jan Ε vankmajer An intricate, multi-layered exploration of the aesthetic and philosophical aspects of Ε vankmajer's animated films. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1984 14 mins Brothers Quay and Keith Griffiths Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies Beautiful near-abstract black-and-white animation inspired by the work of painter Jean-HonorΓ© Fragonard (and his anatomist cousin HonorΓ©). Animation & Artists Moving Image 1988 14 mins Brothers Quay
