A man closes up a lecture hall; he reaches into a box and snips the string holding a gaunt puppet. Released, the puppet warily explores the darkened rooms about him. Screws twist out of objects and move about. A boy doll catches light with a mirror, shining it around: he spotlights the gaunt explorer. An adult female doll stands with breasts exposed. Mechanical spools and wheels turn. The gaunt man investigates. Four doll men surround him, dress him in colorful clothes, invite him to look inside displays that include drawings of penile skeletons. Female dolls awkwardly rotate their arms from broken shoulders. The gaunt man watches. Bruno Schultz is quoted. (IMDb)

1.11GB | 21m 26s | 960×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8DA363A099165E3/Street_of_Crocodiles.1986.720p.BluRay.AVC-mfcorrea.mkv
or
https://nitro.download/view/079F392CA84B03B/Street_of_Crocodiles.1986.720p.BluRay.AVC-mfcorrea.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/877C56E099FC4E8/Street_of_Crocodiles.1986.720p.BluRay.AVC-mfcorrea.part2.rar

Language:Polish,English
Subtitles:Portuguese

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To mark the centenary of the great science fiction writer, Stanislaw Lem, we present this tribute by the legendary stop motion animators Stephen and Timothy Quay. Explore the life and impact of Stanisław Lem through an unique lens of the Quay Brothers.

This short premiered at the 35th Leeds International Film Festival.

Narration is in English with no subs. Quotes of Lem’s work in Polish with English hardsubs.

77.4MB | 10m 31s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/17F2F7F953CEDF4/11.Preliminary.Orbits.Around.Planet.Lem.2021.WEB.1080p.mkv

Language(s):English,Polish
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

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Vade-mecum is a new short produced by the Palm-d’Or-nominated animators, Stephen and Timothy Quay. The film shows the life and works of Polish poet, Cyprian Kamil Norwid , and offers a great introduction to legacy ahead of the bicentennial of his birthday in September 2021.

The Brothers Quay say: ‘We took the challenge to make this film for an audience who will have probably never ever heard of Norwid; however, in the briefness of this film, we had hoped that we could still ignite the gentle curiosity of the imagination of the viewer towards the legacy that this man left in writing and in art that was simply never validated in his lifetime’.

The film has been commisioned and produced by the Polish Cultural Institute in London and the Polish Book Institute.

114MB | 12m 13s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/892096FE3D05638/Vade-mecum_(Quay_Brothers).mkv

Language(s):English, Polish
Subtitles:english hardcoded for non-english parts

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Synopsis:
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school’s operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There’s a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?

2.50GB | 1 h 45 min | 960×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/3F7AB9BB4328DD3/Institute_Benjamenta_(1995)_–_Stephen_Quay,_Timothy_Quay.mkv

Language:English, German
Subtitles:English, French, Spanish, Russian (muxed)

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299MB | 46mn 20s | 720×576 | mkv
https://nitro.download/view/4A50F3B6DC95353/Punch_and_Judy_(Quay,_1981).mkv

Language(s):English
SubtitlesNone

The post Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Keith Griffiths, Larry Sider – Punch & Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy (1981) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Using the tricks of the Flemish playwright’s own trade–puppetry, masks, and a Breughelesque sense of bizarre carnival, the collaborators succeeded in bringing about a rich and sardonic humor lurking at the edge of the playwright’s macabre, death-obsessed imagination in an allusive homage.

188MB | 29mn 1s | 720×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E9C18203A251C3C/Eternal_Day_of_Michel_de_Ghelderode_(Quay,_1981).mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay & Keith Griffiths – The Eternal Day of Michel De Ghelderode (1981) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Plot Outline: Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.

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To watch The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is to enter the fabulist universe of the Brothers Quay, as unique and arcane as any imaginable. These identical twins have made some of the most original films of the last two decades, including Street of Crocodiles, selected by Terry Gilliam as one of the ten best animated films of all time.

Here, the goal was to make a poetic science fiction film inspired by the novella “The Invention of Morel” by the Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares, although the final product bears closer resemblance to Jules Verne’s “Le Château des Carpates.” The story concerns Malvina (Amira Casar), a famous opera singer abducted on the eve of her wedding by the obsessive Dr. Droz (Gottfried John), who takes her away to the Carpathian Mountains. An innocent piano tuner (Cesar Sarachu) is summoned to the mad Droz’s secluded villa to service his strange musical automatons. When he learns of the doctor’s plans to stage a “diabolical opera,” he sets out to save the beautiful Malvina.

The scene is set by a quote from ancient Roman historian Sallust: “These things never happen but are always.” What follows is a magical treat full of the brilliant images for which the Quays are justly lauded. Moving from animated shorts to live-action features, their films have become more complex; animation is still present, with the Quays describing the startling, novel synthesis as “having live actors walk around puppet sets.” This film is haunted by the crazed doctor’s toylike mechanical creations. Visual references abound – in particular Arnold Böcklin’s painting “Island of the Dead” – and the brothers also cite Antonioni and Magritte. Music here is crucial, as Droz is a failed opera composer, and the Quays have assembled an hypnotic soundscape that mixes elements of Vivaldi with music from composer Trevor Duncan, whose work was used in Chris Marker’s La Jetée.

The end result is an evocative dream, part fairytale and part nightmare. The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is a daring trip into a world half-recognized and half-remembered, but impossible to forget.

– Piers Handling

Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay - (2005) The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 34 min
Size: 	1.06 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/ED2454BCB7BE3C8/Stephen_Quay_&_Timothy_Quay_-_(2005)_The_PianoTuner_of_EarthQuakes.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese, English
Subtitles:English

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