Directing
Timothy Quay
- Titles
- 55movies
- Career
Active from 1979 to 2025, with up to 3 main titles a year.
- Directed
- 48titles as director
- Average score
67/100
- Highest rated
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life89/100
What stands out
Compared with the average well-known movie, over 5 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.
- Uncanny8.2average 2.5
- Wonder7.5average 3.4
- Fantasy5.2average 1.8
- Absurdist Humor5.0average 2.0
- Tech & Humanity3.9average 1.6
- Mystery6.3average 4.1
- Melancholy6.4average 4.7
- Spiritual3.6average 2.0
Rarely in their work
- Contemporary Realism1.4, average 5.2
- Family Dynamics1.1, average 4.7
- Crime0.9, average 3.7
- Adrenaline2.8, average 5.1
Main genres
Select a genre to see those titles.
Recurring tags
- Experimental Film 5
- Psychological Exploration 3
- Visually Haunting 3
- Artistic 3
- Dark Fantasy 3
- Stop-Motion 2
- Surreal Imagery 2
- Historical Context 2
- Abstract Narrative 2
- Avant-Garde 2
Works often with
People in at least two of their main titles.
Stephen QuayActorInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, The Doll's Breath, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Inventorium of Traces, +44 more
Keith GriffithsEditorThis Unnameable Little Broom, Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy, The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer, Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929, The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode, +1 more- LLarry SiderEditorInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy, Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929, The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode, A Fratricide
- NNicholas D. KnowlandCinematographerInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Eurydice: She, So Beloved
- WWitold SchejbalActorThe Comb, Anamorphosis
Gottfried JohnActorInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
César SaratxuActorInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes- PPeter LovstromActorInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
- AAlan PassesWriterInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
- SSimon LaurieEditorThe Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, The Sandman
- TTimothy NelsonComposerSanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Movies and TV shows
112020s
1 title · average score 70
70
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2025)
Animation, Editor
2010s
2 titles · average score 71
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (2013)
Director, Animation
71
Maska (2010)
Director, Writer
2000s
3 titles · average score 49
Alice in Not So Wonderland (2007)
Cinematography, Director
49
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005)
Director, Production Design
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door (2001)
Writer, Director
1990s
2 titles · average score 79
69
The Comb (1991)
Camera Operator, Writer
1980s
3 titles · average score 68
70
Street of Crocodiles (1986)
Director, Editor
66
This Unnameable Little Broom (1985)
Director of Photography, Writer
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode (1981)
Writer, Director