By: Jerry Beck,
on 1/10/2016
Cartoon Brew speaks with the Brothers Quay about Christopher Nolan's documentary, their exhaustive Blu-ray collection, and the challenges of finding funding for new projects.
The post ‘We Left the Door Ajar, and Christopher Nolan Slipped In:’ An Interview With The Brothers Quay appeared first on Cartoon Brew.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 1/8/2016
One of the most original voices in contemporary stop motion talks about his work with us.
The post The Art of Animating Horror: An Interview with Robert Morgan appeared first on Cartoon Brew.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 12/21/2015
Ranging from the technical to the quirky to the essential, these holiday electives make great presents for animation pros and fans.
The post Cartoon Brew’s Last-Minute Animation Gift Guide appeared first on Cartoon Brew.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 8/17/2015
"Inception" director Christopher Nolan is helping people discover the animated films of the Quay brothers.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 4/19/2014
“Animated cinema is the demiurgic art par excellence: matter comes to life and is transformed in the hands and imaginations of the creators. They, more than anybody, know about the secret life of objects.” This description, comes from the exhibition “Metamorphosis: Fantasy Visions in Starewitch, Švankmajer and the Quay Brothers,” now playing at the Centre de Cultura Contemporanea (CCCB) in Barcelona, Spain, and it's a good summary of the work of these four visionary animators.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 4/16/2014
The Brothers Quay, the legendary team of identical twin stop motion animators, will be appearing tonight in Chicago at DePaul University for a screening and conversation about their work.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 3/30/2012
The Museum of Modern Art in New York continues to be one of the most animation friendly museums in the US. This week they announced an exhibition and accompanying film retrospective celebrating the work of the 64-year-old identical twin animators Stephen and Timothy Quay, better known as the Brothers Quay. The show, “Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets,” opens on August 8, 2012. The show is being organized by Ron Magliozzi, who has also co-curated MoMA’s hit exhibitions on Tim Burton and Pixar. More from MoMA’s website:
Internationally renowned moving image artists and designers, the Quay Brothers were born outside Philadelphia and have worked from their London studio, Atelier Koninck, since the late 1970s. For over 30 years, they have been in the avant-garde of stop-motion puppet animation and live-action movie-making in the Eastern European tradition of filmmakers like Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Svankmajer and the Russian Yuri Norstein, and have championed a design aesthetic influenced by the graphic surrealism of Polish poster artists of the 1950s and 1960s.
Beginning with their student films in 1971, the Quay Brothers have produced over 45 moving image works, including two features, music videos, dance films, documentaries, and signature personal works, including The Street of Crocodiles (1986), the Stille Nacht series (1988–2008), Institute Benjamenta (1995), and In Absentia (2000). They have also designed sets and projections for opera, drama, and concert performances such as Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa (1991), Ionesco’s The Chairs (Tony-nominated design, 1997), Richard Ayre’s The Cricket Recovers (2005), and recent site-specific pieces based on the work of Bartók and Kafka.
In addition to their better known films, this exhibition will include never-before-seen moving image works and graphic design, drawings, and calligraphy, presenting animated and live-action films alongside installations, objects, and works on paper.
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