Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers

The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer, This Unnameable Little Broom, Street of Crocodiles, Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies, Stille Nacht I (Dramolet), The Comb, Anamorphosis, Stille Nacht II (Are We Still Married?), Stille Nacht III (Tales From the Vienna Woods), Stille Nacht IV (Can't Go Wrong Withou...

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Published in:Film international (Göteborg, Sweden) Sweden), 2008-10, Vol.6 (5), p.72
Main Author: Andersson, Lars Gustaf
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Borowczyk, Walerian
Earthquakes
Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)
Motion picture directors & producers
Motion pictures
Museums
Short films
Siblings
Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Svankmajer, Jan (1934- )
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Summary:The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer, This Unnameable Little Broom, Street of Crocodiles, Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies, Stille Nacht I (Dramolet), The Comb, Anamorphosis, Stille Nacht II (Are We Still Married?), Stille Nacht III (Tales From the Vienna Woods), Stille Nacht IV (Can't Go Wrong Without You), In Absentia and The Phantom Museum Disc 2: The Footnotes, including Nocturna Arti-ficialia, The Calligrapher, The Summit, In Absentia, Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies, Quay Brothers Introduction, Archive Interview, The Falls (Peter Greenaway, excerpt), BFI Distribution Ident, Institute Benjamenta and Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (trailers) Director/Producer/Camera/Editor Timothy and Steven Quay (and Keith Griffiths) DVD USA 2007 Distribution Zeitgeist Films and BFI (NTSC Region 1) Runtime 137 minutes (Disc 1), 124 minutes (Disc 2) Aspect ratio Academy 1.33:1 (The Comb, Phantom Museum, Rehearsals and In Absentia in 16:9 widescreen) Film notes Michael Brooke and Michael Atkinson (booklet) The world of the Quay Brothers is populated with mutilated puppets, objets trouvés, bizarre torture instruments, old rusty toys and the most beautiful fragments of high art. [...]there has been a steady stream of films, mostly stop-motion animated puppet shorts, but sometimes mixed with other techniques; in some films (e.g. the feature film Institute Benjamenta (1995) and In Absentia (2000)) they do also use human actors. Besides these films the Quay Brothers have produced commercials and music videos for MTV (due to rights issues, it is only the Stille Nacht series which is available on this new DVD).
ISSN:1651-6826
2040-3801