The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993 DVD (Region 0)

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10 Listal rating 0 Videos 0 Pictures 0 Reviews 1 Lists 2 Ratings Manufacturer : Kino Video Release date : 1 August 2000 Number of discs : 1 EAN : 9786305957683 UPC : 738329017026 Animation (2), Surrealism (1), Art-film (1) Recommend this to a friend Friend : Please selectTamara H (tamaraphardy29)Professor Brown (professorbrown)sheeper (sheeper)Rômulo Kainof (romulo)Ceinwyn (alinde)BB Walter (bbwalter)sweeety (hejer)kkatris (kkatris)franchises (franchises) Note (optional) : or cancel Mark this item as loaned Listal member or Please selectTamara H (tamaraphardy29)Professor Brown (professorbrown)sheeper (sheeper)Rômulo Kainof (romulo)Ceinwyn (alinde)BB Walter (bbwalter)sweeety (hejer)kkatris (kkatris)franchises (franchises) Non listal name Loaned on 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember 200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020 or cancel Watched UnwatchedWatchingWatched Condition Not specifiedMintNear mintGoodAveragePoor Private notes or cancel

Description The surreal visions of the Brothers Quay, identical-twin animators from Minnesota who have since made London their home, are an offbeat mix of clockwork mechanics, wire, thread, and 19th-century curios, all set to life in a series of beautiful but elusive set pieces. Directed in a highly stylized manner, with a shallow plane of focus that intention The surreal visions of the Brothers Quay, identical-twin animators from Minnesota who have since made London their home, are an offbeat mix of clockwork mechanics, wire, thread, and 19th-century curios, all set to life in a series of beautiful but elusive set pieces. Directed in a highly stylized manner, with a shallow plane of focus that intentionally keeps certain objects blurred and a camera that moves with conspicuous mechanical precision, their works have a dreamlike quality about them. This is directly alluded to in the subtitle of one of their most handsome films, "The Comb (From the Museum of Sleep)," where scenes of a latticework of ladders shooting through an angular construction are intercut with shots of a sleeping woman. "Street of Crocodiles," their most famous short work, references turn-of-the-century cinema as a man peers through a Kinetoscope to watch the nightmare-tinged fantasy of a figure overwhelmed by mysterious forces on the deserted streets of a city after dark. These are the longest and most accomplished short films in The Brothers Quay Collection, a compendium of ten works from 1984 to 1993, but the tape contains other spellbinding works, from the early "The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer," a tribute to the great Czech animator and the Quay's spiritual godfather, to the inventive art history documentary "De Artificiali Perspectiva, or Anamorphosis," to the four short works in the "Stille Nacht" series. These films, along with "The Epic of Gilgamesh" and "Rehearsals For Extinct Anatomies," showcase a vision of quivering objects and surreal narratives in a shadowy, self-contained dream world. --Sean Axmaker ... (more) (less) Directed by : Stephen Quay Timothy Quay Keith Griffiths Starring : Feliks Stawinski Joy Constaninides Witold Scheybal Lists My Art-Film DVDs (29 items) by siouxdax Published 10 months ago View all lists

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