Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
TIFF65: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
- Script: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
- Cinematography: Bartosz Bieniek
- Editing: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
- Sound: Joakim Sundström, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
- Music: Timothy Nelson, Alfred Schnittke
- Actors: Tadeusz Janiszewski, Wioletta Kopańska, Andrzej Kłak
- Production: Koninck Studios SpK Galicia, IKH Pictures Production
- Producers: Lucie Conrad, Izabella Kiszka-Hoflik
- Co-production: The Match Factory, Adam Mickiewicz Institute
- Co-producers: Viola Fügen, Michael Weber
- Production Design: Agata Trojak
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color, B&W
- Production Country: UK, Poland, Germany
- Production Year: 2024
- Duration: 76'
- Contact: The Match Factory
Stephen Quay
The Quay Brothers studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, then later in London at the Royal College of Art. In 1980 they formed Koninck with colleague Keith Griffiths and since then have produced a hybrid collection of film work: puppet animation, documentaries, interludes, commercials, and installations. They have also designed decors for the theatre, opera, and ballet and directed three live-action feature films. Many of their films have been inspired by the writings of authors including: Bruno Schulz, Franz Kafka, Robert Walser, Stanisław Lem, and Felisberto Hernández. Music is key to their work and composers include Karlheinz Stockhausen, Krzysztof Penderecki, Béla Bartók, Witold Lutosławski, Olga Neuwirth, Zdeněk Liška, Louis Andriessen, Timothy Nelson, Michèle Bokanowski, and Alfred Schnittke. In 2012 the QQs were the subject of a grand retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York entitled Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets.
Filmography
1979 Nocturna Artificialia (short, co-direction)
1982 The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (short, co-direction)
1986 Street of Crocodiles (short, co-direction)
1988 Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (short, co-direction)
1991 The Comb (short, co-direction)
1992 Are We Still Married? (short, co-direction)
1995 Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life (co-direction)
2001 Stille Nacht V: Dog Door (short, co-direction)
2007 Alice in Not So Wonderland (short, co-direction)
2011 Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (short doc, co-direction)
2019 The Doll's Breath (short, co-direction)
2024 Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (co-direction)
1982 The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (short, co-direction)
1986 Street of Crocodiles (short, co-direction)
1988 Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (short, co-direction)
1991 The Comb (short, co-direction)
1992 Are We Still Married? (short, co-direction)
1995 Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life (co-direction)
2001 Stille Nacht V: Dog Door (short, co-direction)
2007 Alice in Not So Wonderland (short, co-direction)
2011 Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (short doc, co-direction)
2019 The Doll's Breath (short, co-direction)
2024 Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (co-direction)
Timothy Quay
The Quay Brothers studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, then later in London at the Royal College of Art. In 1980 they formed Koninck with colleague Keith Griffiths and since then have produced a hybrid collection of film work: puppet animation, documentaries, interludes, commercials, and installations. They have also designed decors for the theatre, opera, and ballet and directed three live-action feature films. Many of their films have been inspired by the writings of authors including: Bruno Schulz, Franz Kafka, Robert Walser, Stanisław Lem, and Felisberto Hernández. Music is key to their work and composers include Karlheinz Stockhausen, Krzysztof Penderecki, Béla Bartók, Witold Lutosławski, Olga Neuwirth, Zdeněk Liška, Louis Andriessen, Timothy Nelson, Michèle Bokanowski, and Alfred Schnittke. In 2012 the QQs were the subject of a grand retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York entitled Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets.
Filmography
1979 Nocturna Artificialia (short, co-direction)
1982 The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (short, co-direction)
1986 Street of Crocodiles (short, co-direction)
1988 Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (short, co-direction)
1991 The Comb (short, co-direction)
1992 Are We Still Married? (short, co-direction)
1995 Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life (co-direction)
2001 Stille Nacht V: Dog Door (short, co-direction)
2007 Alice in Not So Wonderland (short, co-direction)
2011 Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (short doc, co-direction)
2019 The Doll's Breath (short, co-direction)
2024 Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (co-direction)
1982 The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (short, co-direction)
1986 Street of Crocodiles (short, co-direction)
1988 Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (short, co-direction)
1991 The Comb (short, co-direction)
1992 Are We Still Married? (short, co-direction)
1995 Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life (co-direction)
2001 Stille Nacht V: Dog Door (short, co-direction)
2007 Alice in Not So Wonderland (short, co-direction)
2011 Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (short doc, co-direction)
2019 The Doll's Breath (short, co-direction)
2024 Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (co-direction)
