Stephen and Timothy are the filmmakers collectively known as the Brothers Quay. They are Philadelphia born twins who seemingly have never separated. They have always worked together creating short animated films such as Street of Crocodiles and The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer. They even contributed animation to Peter Gabriels Sledgehammer video and created numerous other videos and commercials. They first entered the feature film realm with their live action film Institute Benjamenta and after ten...
i've been waiting for this all week! thank you so much - they're my favorite.
I saw them speak & show some of their work just a few months ago and it was wonderful.
I thought Piano Tuner was both good and not so good.
I try to be forgiving with the low budgetness,
but its hard. Its harder when the
filmmaker is quite ambitious usually.
There's definitely things that come across
as bad pretentious poetry, and others
that are successfully beautiful, engaging, mystical, other-worldy...etc.
That's too bad that's all they've said for years,
how they can't get funding these days.
The state of art on earth is just smothered by garbage.
I can try and apologize for America's share of it.
haha.
"There was a story in there about a famous Cameroonian rain ant who goes to the forest floor and inhales the spores that fall from the sky. Upon sniffing it, it climbs the stalk, clamps its mandibles around the stalk and then dies. But the fungus carries on eating out the brain and then this violent stalk explodes with more spores that fall down for the next unsuspecting floor foraging animal. That became a metaphor about madness in the broad sense of the word."
Zoetica
NEWSWIRE
Portola Valley, CA
NOV 17, 2006 06:00 AM