Quay Brothers, The - The Short Films 1979-2003

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Unlike Anything Else

A Customer from London, 23rd July, 2008

The work of the Quay's is truly beautiful and original. You are really unlikly to have ever seen anything like this before. You'll need to forget just about every precept of what constitutes a story to get a handle on these guys stories and imagery. Watching any of these short films brings you into an astonishingly intricate, breathtakingly weird and fairly obtuse universe. Each film is very different, and all pretty baffling, but the Quay's do that very clever trick of making each film seem part of something much bigger. The style is the really astonishing thing. The Quay's make their characters so light and balletic and they dance so perfectly in time to the original music that it is impossible to know which came first. Also, every face is immobile as palstic but each pours out emotion. The work calls to mind stuff like Pinter, Beckett and other 'difficult' writers. It's where TIm Burton would go if he didn't care about his audience's sanity. They have influenced music video's by Tool and Marilyn Mason, but have no wish to shock. Simply expand. If I meet someone who knows and likes The Brothers Quay, I'm pretty sure they will be my friend for life.

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Quay Brothers Short films

Deuxchats from from Bolton, 24th September, 2008

Anyone who likes the films of Jan Svankmajer (czech animation) will love this!! Kind of sinister and macabre...amazing object and puppet animation ..fantastically obscure sets, and beautiful art direction and plinky plonky music.

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Daresay their Mum thinks it's great...

A Customer from 2nd row from the back, Lincolnshire, 27th August, 2008

All very clever no doubt. The odd interesting moment but essentially an endurance test.

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