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The Brothers Quay collection [videorecording].

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: K170DVDPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Kino on Video, c2000.Description: 1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • NC1766.U52 B768x 2000
Contents:
The cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (14 min.) (1984) -- The epic of Gilgamesh or, This unnameable little broom (11 min.) (1985) -- Street of crocodiles (21 min.) (1986) -- Rehearsals for extinct anatomies (14 min.) (1988) -- Dramolet (Stille Nacht I) (1 min.) (1988) -- The comb (From the Museums of Sleep) (17 min.) (1991) -- De Artificiali Perspectiva or Anamorphosis (15 min.) (1991) -- Are we still married? (Stille Nacht II) (3 min) (1991) / music by His Name is Alive -- Tales from the Vienna Woods (Stille Nacht III) (3 min.) (1992) -- Can't go wrong without you (Stille Nacht IV) (3 min.) / music by His Name is Alive.
Production credits:
  • Directors, Brothers Quay ; producer, Keith M. Griffiths.
Summary: The Brothers Quay create puppet animation, where decaying dolls, primitive machinery, and other found objects interact in an expressionist world of ultra-reality.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 0102 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050089558

Videodisc release of the short films produced between 1984 and 1993.

DVD features include: "Nocturna Artificialia" (21 minutes, 1979), the first Brothers Quay short; original theatrical trailer for the Quay Brothers feature Institute Benjamenta; interview with the Brothers Quay.

The cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (14 min.) (1984) -- The epic of Gilgamesh or, This unnameable little broom (11 min.) (1985) -- Street of crocodiles (21 min.) (1986) -- Rehearsals for extinct anatomies (14 min.) (1988) -- Dramolet (Stille Nacht I) (1 min.) (1988) -- The comb (From the Museums of Sleep) (17 min.) (1991) -- De Artificiali Perspectiva or Anamorphosis (15 min.) (1991) -- Are we still married? (Stille Nacht II) (3 min) (1991) / music by His Name is Alive -- Tales from the Vienna Woods (Stille Nacht III) (3 min.) (1992) -- Can't go wrong without you (Stille Nacht IV) (3 min.) / music by His Name is Alive.

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