Maska

"Maska" is the latest animated film of Quay brothers, directors and puppet animators, with the music composed by Krzysztof Penderecki. The film is an adaptation of Stanisław Lem’s short story of the same title. The action of “Maska” is set in a technologically developed but, at the same time, feudal world. Beautiful Duenna was created in order to carry out certain mission. However, she will be forced to choose between accomplishing the task she was created for and love.

Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You

Short animated film featuring the song "Can't Go Wrong Without You" by His Name Is Alive.

Ghosts and Whispers

An unbroken sequence of fragments, last thoughts, elegies and absences by Schubert, Mozart, Wagner, Janáček, Stravinsky, Jacquet de la Guerre and Schumann, inter-leaved with movements from John Woolrich's Pianobooks. The programme is performed alongside images from the Quay Brothers.

The Summit

Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.

The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection

A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.

In Absentia

A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on her window. She sharpens pencils and writes on a page in a copy book. The pencil point often breaks under her fingers' force. She places broken points outside the window on the sill. A satanic figure is somewhere nearby, animated but of straw or clay, not flesh. She finishes her writing, tears the paper from the pad, folds it, places it in an envelope, and slips it through a slot. Is she writing to ...

Songs for Dead Children

Another short, grainy film from the Quay Brothers. This one has funny singing in it.

Wonderwood: Comme des garçons

A bird acts as an alchemist in an enchanted forest, selecting different kinds of wood to combine them in a parquet floor.