Quay

We don’t try to emulate what’s outside our window, that’s the last thing we want to emulate.

A contemplative documentary portrait of surrealist animators at work, exploring the strange, melancholic beauty of their creative process and artistic vision.

In 2015, Christopher Nolan curated a selection of short films by the surrealist animators the Quay Brothers to be distributed as a touring 35mm presentation. The three films—"In Absentia" (2000), "The Comb" (1991) and "Street of Crocodiles" (1986)—were accompanied by this brief portrait of the brothers at work in their London studio.