Thursday, January 14 | 5:30 & 8 p.m.
Curated by Christopher Nolan, The Quay Bothers in 35mm provides a rare opportunity to experience the insular, darkly poetic world of stop-motion animators Stephen and Timothy Quay.  For this program, Nolan—a longtime Quay aficionado—has selected three of the pair’s most striking, representative works. Backed by a tempestuous avant-garde score, In Absentia (2000) uses flickering natural light to paint a haunting, expressionistic portrait of love and madness. A surrealist fairy-tale, The Comb (1991) visualizes the unconscious mind of a dreamer as labyrinthine, forested landscape.  Often called the Quay Brother’s masterpiece, Street of Crocodiles (1986) interrogates the boundary between animate and inanimate; featuring dolls and other found objects in various states of decay, the film uses precisely choreographed camera movements and focus-shifts to create a constantly evolving sense of depth and scale.  These films will be screened in new 35mm prints alongside Nolan’s never-before-seen documentary Quay (2015), which presents an intimate and illuminating glimpse into the famously reclusive filmmakers’ artistic process.
Director The Quay Brothers, Christopher Nolan 1986-2015 US/UK 70 minutes NR 35mm
