The Brothers Quay are best known for their creepy puppet animations, but they’re also theatrical set designers, which is more relevant to this elegant and surreal live-action feature (2005). A piano ...

A crazed 19th-century doctor (Gottfried John) reanimates a murdered opera star (Amira Casar) in hopes of turning her into a singing automaton. Directed by brothers Timothy and Stephen Quay, who ...

For their second feature-length film the Quay brothers, identical twins and stop-action animators, have chosen a live-action narrative to showcase their obsession with all things antique, decaying, ...

Felisberto Fernandez is a piano tuner of exceptional skill, hired by Dr. Emmanuel Droz to come to a remote clinic to clean and refurbish Droz's seven automatons, elaborate mechanical constructs. Droz ...

Evoking fairy tales, European art, surrealist literature, and daguerreotypes, London-based directors the Brothers Quay confound their viewers with as much lush imagery as they can cram into a frame.