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"This new Blu-ray collection of surreal short films allows to see ... work of Stephen and Timothy Quay who have been creating their unique blend of puppetry and stop-motion animation. The collection also includes a new short film by Christopher Nolan, a long-time fan of the Quays"--Publish...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nolan, Christopher, 1970- (Author, Director)
Other Authors: Quay, Stephen, 1947- (Director, Producer), Quay, Timothy, 1947- (Director, Producer), Greenaway, Peter (Director)
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:No linguistic content
Language Notes:No dialogue, incidental music; some films include fragments in Slavic language (Czech or Polish?), subtitled in English.
Published: [New York] : Zeitgeist Films, [2015]
Edition:Blu-ray edition.
Subjects:
Short films.
Experimental films.
Animated films.
Table of Contents:
  • Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer (1984 ; 14 min.) ; Unnameable little broom, (Epic of Gilgamesh) (1985 ; 11 min.) ; Street of crocodiles (1986 ; 21 min.) ; Rehearsals for extinct anatomies (1987 ; 14 min. ) ; Stille Nacht I, Dramolet (1988 ; 1 min.) ; Comb, (From the museums of sleep) (1990 ; 18 min.) ; Artificiali perspectiva, Anamorphosis (1991 ; 14 min.) ; Stille Nacht II, (Are we still maried?) (1992 ; 3 min.) ; Stille Nacht III, (Tales from Vienna Woods) (1993 ; 4 min.) ; Stille Nacht IV, (Can't go wrong without you) (1994 ; 4 min.) ; In absentia (2000 ; 20 min.) ; Phantom museum, Random forays into the vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's medical collection (2003 ; 12 min.) ; Maska (2010 ; 24 min.) ; Through the weeping glass, (Limbos & afterbreezes in the Mütter Muzeum) (2011 ; 31 min.) ; Unmistaken hands, Ex voto "F.H." (2013 ; 26 min.).