It reside & operate within England where they moved within a late 1960s (fallowing researching illustration in Philadelphia) to learn at the Royal College of Art where they manufactured their 1st & nowadays endure short films. It expended occasionally period in the Netherlands in the 1970s so returned to England in which it team by owning a second Royal College student, Keith Griffiths, who produced completely of their films, & formed Koninck Studios in 1980.

A Quays' works (1980-present) show influence from either Czech animator Jan Švankmajer, for whom they known as one of their films (The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer). Virtually all of their films feature dolls, typically partly disassembled, within the dark, moody atmosphere. Perchance better known is Street of Crocodiles, based on a short story of the equivalent title per Polish creator & creative person Bruno Schulz. This short film was selected by director & animator Terry Gilliam as one of the x right alive films ever. It develop created of these feature-length survive action film: Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life. Their 2nd feature-length survive action film is The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes. It as well directed an alive sequence in the film Frida.

One of a virtually all right artistic expressions in their operate is the utilise of experimental music composers for their films (which are then about universally only devoid of dialogue). Composers it use listed it used to be that include Lech Jankowski, His Name Is Alive, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

It develop created music videos for His Name Is Alive ("Are We Still Married", "Can't Go Wrong Without You") & Michael Penn ("Long Way Down (Look What the Cat Drug In)"). A bit of humans erroneously think that a Quays come responsible many music on line videos for Tool, but victims cds were created per band's guitar player, Adam Jones, who is besides an animator & whose act is influenced per Quays. Their function besides includes interior decoration for the Theatre & Opera productions of director Richard Jones: Prokofiev's "Love for Three Oranges"; Feydeau's "A Flea in Her Ear"; Tchaikovsky's "Mazeppa"; and Molière's "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.". Their placed project for Ionesco's "The Chair" was nominated for a Tony Award in 1998.

Filmography

Nocturna Artificialia (1979) Punch And Judy (Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy) (1980) Ein Brudermord (1981) The Eternal Day Of Michel de Ghelderode (1981) Stravinsky - The Paris Years (1983) Leos Janacek: Intimate Excursions (1983) The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer (1984) The Epic Of Gilgamesh (1985) Aka The Unutterable Little Broom Street Of Crocodiles (1986) Stille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988) Rehearsals For Extinct Anatomies (1988) Ex-Voto/The Pond (1989) The Comb (From The Museum Of Sleep) (1990) De Artificiali Perspectiva, or Anamorphosis (1991) The Calligrapher (1991) Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married (1991) Long Way Down (Look What The Cat Drug In) (1992) Stille Nacht III: Tales From The Vienna Woods (1992) Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You (1993) Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995) In Absentia (2000) The Sandman (2000) Duet (2000) The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (2003) The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes (2004)