In addition to their obsession with writing and handwritten artifacts, the Quays use a variety of print materials as elements of the décor in their films. These elements are often used denotatively, i.e. as actual advertisements, posters, signs, etc., but they are also frequently used for their graphic qualities alone. One of the more surprising print artifacts to be featured in their films is the humble yet ubiquitous bar code.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Cinema, Print Culture
Tagged: bar code, Brothers Quay, experimental film, Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies, Stille Nacht I
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- 09.01.2010 – 12:20 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin
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- 09.01.2010 – 12:15 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin
Listening to the soundtrack from the Brothers’ Quay Stille Nacht III (Tales from Vienna Woods), the first thing we notice is that it’s not a soundtrack by Leszek Jankowski, who has composed the music for many of the Quays’ best-known films. Rather, it is a sound collage apparently created by the Quays themselves, as the credits at the end of the film are fictitious.
Categories: Cinema, Literature
Tagged: Brothers Quay, experimental film, Nikolai Gogol, sountrack, Stille Nacht III
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- 08.15.2010 – 12:15 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin
After the extreme close-up on the face, one of the most common shots in the Brothers Quay filmic grammar is the close-up on the hands. As these shots remind us, hands can be as expressive as faces, perhaps even more so, when it comes to conveying emotional states or revealing something about the person (or puppet) to whom they belong.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Cinema
Tagged: Brothers Quay, experimental film, hands, Stille Nacht III, The Comb
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- 06.22.2010 – 12:07 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin
This gallery contains a selection of stills from films by the Brothers Quay featuring close-ups on hands.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Cinema, Gallery
Tagged: Brothers Quay, hands, Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies, Stille Nacht III, The Comb
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- 06.22.2010 – 12:05 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin
The Quays’ interest in writing has nothing to do with the shepherding of short stories and novels from the page to the screen; rather, it’s all about the obsessive visual exploration of writing as both an activity and an artifact that permeates their films.
Categories: Cinema, Writing
Tagged: Brothers Quay, experimental film
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- 02.10.2010 – 6:15 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin
This gallery contains a selection of stills from films by the Brothers Quay that reveal their obsession with writing.
Categories: Cinema, Gallery, Writing
Tagged: Brothers Quay, experimental film
- Published:
- 02.10.2010 – 6:00 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin