The Quay Brothers

The Quay Brothers are twin animators. The influences for their animations range from animators, puppeteers, writers to composers. Due to this range of influence, the Quay Brother’s works usually consists of these features. They use puppets made of doll parts in most of their films and their most successful work, Street of Crocodiles, is actually based on Bruno Schulz’s novel, this shows how much puppeteers and writers influence the Quay Brother’s works. The Quay Brothers prefer to use musical scores in their works, rather than dialogue. According to Wikipedia, the brothers have said that they “prefer to work with pre-recorded music.” The Quay Brother style is often dark and freaky, almost Halloween-like. The doll puppets certainly contribute to the dark tone in their films. The Wikipedia article states that the brothers attended the University of Art in Pennsylvania, and moved to London in 1969 and attended the Royal College of Art.  They were illustrators before becoming animators. They illustrated drawings for Anthony Burger’s The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby’s End and Karlheinz Stockhausen.